David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Just to quickly return to this, the implications of this are 1) by relying on out of copyright history, the errors of past historians get regurgitated (badly) 2) 'mid-tier', affordable histories by humans (yer Katherine Arnolds etc), which are at least fact checked, get squeezed out of the market 160 6
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 23/01/2026And most importantly 3) I get asked a ton of questions about records that have never existed. 180 8
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026And not just you: have you seen this statement from the ICRC? www.icrc.org/en/article/i... The implication is that people are accusing them of hiding records that AI insists exist but has actually just hallucinated.icrc.orgImportant notice: AI-generated archival and legal references 160 6