Could we be running ai to look for things like this in photo backgrounds?
What do you mean by this? I’d say you definitely could, although it would need an expert to sort through the candidates to find the ones with following up on.
AI seems to have hit its limits, but this kind of stuff is what AI is great at.
So it was sold at auction which led to it being lost. Then the owners of this building purchased it? This historian just stole the art from them?