Artist Decoded

The archive's carried excerpt opens not with the deck but with a definition of artificial intelligence, and that framing is itself the document: by 2024, the first question a reviewer asked of a new contemporary deck was how it was made, provenance of the hand becoming part of every deck's reception. The record does not resolve what the review concluded about the Artist Decoded's methods, and this note honors that limit rather than guessing. What the moment means for the catalog is worth stating plainly: decks now carry a new axis of provenance, human, machine-assisted, machine-made, and the reading community's scrutiny, like the archive's own human-made declaration, is the tradition defending what it values about authorship. This entry preserves that turning point. It suits collectors documenting tarot's AI-era reckoning, contemporary-deck readers who ask the new first question, and anyone studying how craft communities police their boundaries. When better documentation of this deck's making surfaces, this note should be updated; that, too, is provenance work.