Flint DibbleAI generated art depicting history and archaeology is actively spreading ignorance
Follow real archaeologists and historians and creators sharing real stuff, not this fake crap that looks nice and pretends to be authentic but gets everything wrong
Sebastian Hageneuer@FlintDibble Ha! Yeah, I also like the discussion below that tweet. Apparently archaeological visualisations are too boring, so lets make stuff up!
@ArchaeoBasti these are probably the same exact people who argue that buying replicas are worthless cause they aren't the real thing
Joe Roe@FlintDibble It's a shame, because I've seen some really cool stuff when image generators are trained on real archaeology by people who know what they're doing.
@joeroe oh for sure! machine learning in the field can and will help us both study and visualize the past
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@FlintDibble good podcast, I'm going to side with him
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@FlintDibble can you please CW Ai art?
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NightFlyer@FlintDibble I worry more about people treating current movies/plays about relatively recent events as truth. How many people's knowledge of the 1770s is completely colored by "Hamilton" the musical, which isn't even meant to be a historically accurate documentary. I worry less about people having the wrong ideas about stuff from a few millenia ago, and would rather that they actually get excited about past civilizations than think none of it is worth learning about.
ArchaeoIain@FlintDibble this is a very important topic that I addressed briefly 15 years ago before AI became an issue. It is really about 1) what people want out of their "knowledge" of the past and 2) letting historians and physiologists tell the archaeological story instead of telling it ourselves. If we archaeologists wrest the narrrative back, we might be able to control how people get real knowledge of the past to help them understand how we got to where we are on the brink of disaster.
@FlintDibble this looks like more of what we should be aiming at
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/world-heritage-sites-lynn-meskell
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/world-heritage-sites-lynn-meskell
GrouchyHydra@FlintDibble . . . That looks more like a recreation of Technotitlan (the city on the lake that was the defacto capital for the Nahautl) than Uruk or Sumer.
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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄@FlintDibble Accounts with "aesthetic" in their title are an instant red flag.
🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦@FlintDibble Fall of Civilizations podcast is fantastic, everyone should be listening to it.
Joe Beam@FlintDibble I think that picture is from a Marvel movie, The Eternals.