Christeah Dupont 'AI is Destroying history' (2025)
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Bio: Christeah Dupont https://www.youtube.com/@professorpeachez https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/museum-talk-30-christeah-dupont-schgpk#:~:text=Christeah%20Dupont%20is%20a%20former%20Assistant%20Curator,member%20of%20The%20Vancouver%20Island%20Local%20History https://www.instagram.com/christeah_/ Transcription! Transcript: "AI was used in conjunction with x-ray technology by three students participating in the Vesuvius Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri#Vesuvius_Challenge to digitally unroll a scroll from Herculaneum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri a record that was in such poor condition that it could not be physically unrolled without destroying much of the record. As a result we have learned so much about a philosopher named Philodemus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philodemus whom researchers previously did not know much about because so few of his records had survived but now several more passages have been deciphered and it seems like there is more to come as researchers have even more to unravel." https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-q7XsQO81g?start=147&end=181 Related: "The internet being what it is, users have downloaded Historical Figures — which was first made available some two weeks ago — and embarked on conversations with unsavory characters including Charles Manson, Jeffrey Epstein, and various high-ranking Nazis. These are just a few of the 20,000 significant personalities available for interview, and they seem especially keen on expressing remorse for the horrible things they did while alive, while whitewashing their own documented views. Henry Ford waving off accusations of anti-Semitism and Ronald Reagan saying he handled the AIDS crisis appropriately are very unfortunate applications of this software, which uses large language models — neural networks trained on voluminous text data. But these are topics that real humans might conceivably disagree on. Historical Figures has an even more glaring problem: it screws up basic biography and chronology" (Klee, M., 2023, January 20). Phenomenon: of 'AI Slop' i.e. https://newpractices.co.uk/AIslop/ for example: 'The Most Beautiful People of the Past Brought to Life' (2025) https://newpractices.co.uk/AIslop/#JRsamUINo8Q and 'AI interviews the people aboard the Titanic' (2025) https://newpractices.co.uk/AIslop/#SA6fUs3dsRU and Battle Tested (2025). '1776 meet 2025' https://newpractices.co.uk/AIslop/#JWwLZcHpaaw and Victor Ivanov (15 August 2026). "Trump posted an AI video of himself giving George Washington a tour of the new White House ballroom" https://newpractices.co.uk/AIslop/#m5fktD3PQ3I Bibliography: Vesuvius Challenge. (2024, February 5). 'Vesuvius challenge 2023 grand prize awarded: We can read the scrolls!' https://scrollprize.org/grandprize Klee, M. (2023, January 20). "'Historical figures' AI lets famous dead people lie to you". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/historical-figures-ai-chat-bot-lies-dead-people-1234664257/ Woodcock, C. (2023, May 2). "AI is tearing Wikipedia apart". VICE. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart/
