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An article by Frank Musto For generations, artists have blurred the boundary between reality and illusion. In the era of artificial intelligence, that line is becoming almost impossible to see. The question many viewers now ask when standing before a technically masterful painting is no longer “How did you paint that?” but rather, “Is this AI?” Ironically, this uncertainty may place AI in direct conversation with one of art history’s oldest visual tricks: Trompe l’œil. French for “deceive the eye,” trompe l’œil painting was designed to fool viewers into believing painted objects were real. Artists painstakingly rendered wood grain, folded…