Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 12/02/2024One of the AI content types I come across the most recently is generated images of pre photography era historical figures. 🧵 1104
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I get the compulsion, especially for figures we don't often learn about, like women and particularly women in the global south. We don't have many graphic representations of these people and images are powerful... especially on social media. 120
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 12/02/2024But historic images communicate much more than an idea. They show us things about materials and craftsmanship. The things people wore meant something. These generated images give us inconsistent hallucinations about aesthetic and material pasts that never existed. 162
