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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 2:06am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

YouTube. “Chloe” travels back in time and takes a tour of Ancient Rome. There’s a second video on the channel depicting “her” visit to the Titanic. There are artifacts and inconsistencies that you are bound to notice if you study the background. 

On one hand, the goal of the content creator is to depict items of historical interest as accurately as possible, in a way that may capture the interest of students and the younger generations by way of an AI “influencer” recording with “her” phone’s camera. 

On the other hand, we are really close to approaching the point where AI videos are indistinguishable from reality, which is a terrifying outcome if the content creator isn’t trying to depict items of interest as accurately as possible. 

Still, it’s fascinating to watch.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 10:28am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Technically impressive, but AI tattoos?? Ugh!!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 11:33am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

I wonder if they did that just in order to prove they could? I assume the tattoos are consistent across this - and other - videos, which in and of itself would be a technical achievement. 
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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 11:58am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Hm. In standard CGI once something is mapped it stays mapped. I have no idea if AI works the same way.
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Michael Hogan
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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

In the right hands, with the right intent and oversight (and
without the annoying "tour guide"), I could see this being
very useful for grade-school instruction.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Certainly an improvement over the slide shows we got in the Fifties and Sixties!!

(O, God, I’m OLD!!)

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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

(In fourth grade I got in trouble from one of those slide shows. It was about the Middle Ages, and the teacher informed us that back then people didn’t get any older than 35, if that. But one of the slides showed an old man with a long white beard. Up goes little John’s hand—and off goes little John to the principal’s office for “disrupting” the class. Ah, yes. The days of corporal punishment!)
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

For the crime of asking a QUESTION. 

Call it professional pride, but it really bothers me when I read or hear stories like yours, JB 
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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

It was a different time. And I used to get “sent to the principle” almost every day up thru Junior High.

I should consider myself lucky, I suppose. These days I would probably be doped up to the eyeballs.

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Peter Martin
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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply


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Hm. In standard CGI once something is mapped it stays mapped. I have no idea if AI works the same way.

AI doesn't work in the same way and it's a major pain in the neck. It's a hurdle to keep AI from drifting or re-imagining what things look like. The engines have got better at it, but in my experience, it's still a problem.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

JB - Do you think you might have been diagnosed with something like ADHD, if such a diagnosis existed back then? I suppose it depends on who's the teacher, but as an adult with ADHD who has a son who possibly has ADHD, I generally don't recommend kids I suspect of having ADHD get medicated, unless they are literally incapable of functioning in a learning environment and cause problems to the functioning of others within that environment. 

In modern day education, teachers want students who ask questions and don't just take for granted the things we tell them. Students in general really suffer from the inability to infer or think critically, I think most likely as a consequence of excessive screen time starting at birth, and there are days where I'd give my left ear to have a kid ask interesting questions that challenge the topics we discuss in class. 


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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 April 2026 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

I suspect I might have been diagnosed with ADHD, but the fact that we moved so often when I was a kid—(all together now!) 9 schools in 11 years–meant I was always the new kid in class and struggled to fit in.
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