The aura dividend
Walter Benjamin thought reproduction would dissolve the aura of the original. It made originals more expensive instead.
provenance is a product now
trying to answer →Why might human-made things become more valuable?
In 1935 Walter Benjamin argued that mechanical reproduction strips a work of art of its aura: its presence in one time and place. He was right about the aura and wrong about what would happen to its price. A century of perfect copies has made originals more valuable, not less.
The obvious extension is that generated abundance could pay a similar dividend to things demonstrably made by a person. The less obvious part is the word demonstrably. Aura used to be free; the original was just the original. From here on, provenance has to be proven. That makes proof of origin a product category, not a footnote.