It is estimated that, sometime in the past few months, the content on the internet produced by AI finally overtook content produced by the human mind. In other words, if you go online these days – from YouTube to X, from Facebook to TikTok to can-that-really-be-a-fetish.com – you are more likely than not to be looking through, gasping about, or getting horribly enraged at something created by a silent machine.

And I am afraid to say The Spectator , at least in this article, is not going to be an exception. What I am about to tell you, or show you, is partly written by AI – in this case GPT5. However – of course, there is a however – I have a good reason for dousing you with ‘AI slop’. I want to prove that it isn’t always slop, certainly not when it comes to antiques.

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