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> It has always been understood that history was unreliable, but the collapse of media credibility as we gain access to primary sources stands as a stark warnin
by Mezzie 3y ago
> It has always been understood that history was unreliable, but the collapse of media credibility as we gain access to primary sources stands as a stark warning of just how little we really know about the past.
Establishing provenance and reliability post 2020 is going to be...interesting...
- anamexis 3y agoWhy 2020 specifically?
- tarkin2 3y agoGenerative AI
- Mezzie 3y agoSpecifically the combination of generative AI and the lack of current understanding of it by the history-making professions (archivists and historians). Historians and archivists rely a lot on primary sources and right now digital provenance is already a dumpster fire - I don't even want to think of what generative AI is going to do. A lot of the methods traditionally used for identifying an authentic primary source aren't going to work with generative AI.
- kiba 3y agoIt isn't particularly new, given that most of our media are either doctored, touched up, or manipulated in some ways. Most of us don't have VFX knowledge or the ability to detect minute flaws in Deepfake works. We do it through by filtering and selecting sources of information.