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To Recover Artworks Looted by the Nazis, Researchers Are Getting Creative, With New Strategies Including an A.I. Chatbot and a Campaign of 'Wanted' Posters

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Researchers at Santa Clara University have created an AI Provenance Assistant chatbot designed to streamline research into Nazi-looted artworks by aggregating fragmented records across multiple databases in different languages and formats, making repatriation of stolen cultural heritage faster and more accessible.

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