the founding fathers did not film a vlog

Historian Lindsay Chervinsky checks AI-made US history videos for WIRED. A period costume is not a bibliography.

The useful exercise is testing the claims against historical knowledge, rather than treating a confidently narrated image as evidence. The founding fathers left enough actual paperwork without giving them a synthetic vlog.

Video and featured image: WIRED’s official upload.

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