Artmarket.com: The Artprice Manifesto: 22 Rules for a Regulated and Transparent Art Market in the Age of AI
May 14, 2026
Paris [France], May 14: We are living through one of those defining periods. Artificial intelligence is redistributing the value of information at an unprecedented pace. Synthetic data now makes up the majority of the Internet, having surpassed Peak Data in 2024 (a phenomenon reflecting a saturation of the high-quality data available to train AI LLMs), reaching a point where AI slop (AI-generated video or photo content) now blurs the line between documented fact and algorithmic reconstruction. In an information-saturated world under extreme strain--facing the greatest energy shock the global economy has ever encountered, a risk of an extreme food crisis according to the UN, structural geopolitical uncertainties, and market tensions redefining asset allocation behaviors--the quality of the source has never mattered more.