When AI renders antiquity, it’s not reaching back into history, it’s reaching for the average of every image ever made about it.
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Historical romance allows readers to imagine a better past. For many, this is more important than historical accuracy – which can be ‘the icing on the cake’.
58% of players felt video game developers should minimise changes to history - as long as it doesn’t get in the way of fun.
At historic sites across the South, you’ll often find a white woman, dressed in Colonial clothes, cooking in a big house kitchen. That’s a role that was usually done by enslaved Africans.
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