In a unique case of fighting fakes with fakes, the Montreal-based start-up Acrylic Robotics announced in July that, in partnership with the Norval Morrisseau Estate, its robots will reproduce five Morrisseau paintings and make the copies available for purchase. Norval AI“We have created our own artificial intelligence called Norval AI to help determine the probability of an authentic Norval Morrisseau painting,” Cory Dingle, the Morrisseau estate’s executive director, tells The Art Newspaper. Better fakes“We needed better replicas to test our artificial intelligence programme—the existing fake paintings were so terrible,” Dingle says. This in turn was run through the Norval AI programme and the results were shared with Acrylic Robotics to help improve its replicas. Marked as replicasPrices for the Acrylic Robotics works range from C$3,240 to C$45,000.