Medieval Historian Versus AI

[@NIWASHIKINGBURNERACCOUNT]

I need more historians shitting on Ai depictions of history. Ai has been so shitty for preserving and talking about history.

[@burtlangoustine1]

AI is worrisome. I hate its dehumanising gassing of humanity while time after time Ai plays better at impersonating evil over good. How dare tech hold so much self importance over us all, we're the beings of consciousness here, not the damn toasters.

[@NIWASHIKINGBURNERACCOUNT]

@burtlangoustine1 It definitely dehumanizing to human history, it's adds this touch of disconnect where people could potentially forget the greatness of people by not featuring the locations, clothes, and art of those times, and uses bad cartoon like depictions of real people that have no basis in historical records or anything like that, just other similar pictures. Ai totally sucks in a historical framework!

[@justsaynotoboomers]

That's not the job of AI.

[@NIWASHIKINGBURNERACCOUNT]

@@justsaynotoboomers Tell that to these youtube history shorts accounts just trying to make a quick buck on factoids and throwing inputs into an app

[@scouttyra]

SnappyDragon (who makes and talks about historical clothes) has a video reacting to AI stuff

[@Revenant_Art]

The worst thing is that there are hundreds of "historical" channels on KZbin and on the rest of the social medias created entirely by AI - pictures, narration, info, that spread misinformation and make a lot of money from viewership.

[@PlanetEarth3141]

You don't even know what AI really is. You just listen to others who say they do and believe them. AI is currently a buzzword for ignorant people, not programmers in artificial intelligence. Turn cynical and lose the propaganda BS 🤚💩😞 your chewing. Start by getting rid of this dumb woman.

[@ManuelRomero-h7b]

Yep ... I block ALOT.

[@theKNI]

@@ManuelRomero-h7b You can also report accounts or videos for misinformation. I can't help wondering if there might be cause enough for someone to make a Discord server for historians where video links etc can be posted so that they might be reviewed and then reported if they're found to be sufficiently incorrect, since social media companies only seem to take down posts that are reported multiple times for the same reason.

[@PlanetEarth3141]

@@Revenant_Art History is always rewritten by those who don't want everyone to understand the truth. But want people to agree with their propaganda. For example: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Idi Amin, Putin, General Franco, Fernando Marcos, Mao Tse Tong, the Chinese Communist Party, Democrats, Republicans, Pastors, Rabbis, Priests, Mulahs, Presidents, Emperor's, Kings, Queens, Dictators, MSNBC hosts, CNN hosts, Fox News hosts, corporate CEOs, bankers, lawyers, judges, insurance people, real estate people, police, firemen, politicians, bureaucrats, family, neighbors, etc. a All telling you what to believe usually because you're too dumb to use your own brain well enough and need to be told. The corrupt leading the dumb. You know, Democrats. 😞🤔🧐💯👍

[@Ghoulza]

There are also channels with humans no AI that spread crap info.

[@DrVon2]

I love watching these with sub-titles. It's great to know about "Linda's Farm" and "Jonah Arc"

[@MelanieMoxon]

AI continues to be a jerk 🤣

[@ericdane7769]

And a pilgrimage to Canter-berry.

[@theparkourlady894]

😂 😂 😂 😂 That's classic! Ai voice over for the win 😂😂😂

[@SecondSince]

That's why the Viking's raided there. They wanted to visit Linda.

[@lisajohnson4744]

😂😂

[@ilirlluka6789]

RIP to the poor monks of Lindisfarne that were brutally sacked and massacred by Ragnar Lothbrok in the year of our lord 2013.

[@samwell2386]

😂😂😂

[@theparkourlady894]

😂😂😂😂

[@davidsaville5239]

No Ragnar Lothbrok rules

[@helenamcginty4920]

If they had not had so much gold and precious stones to loot they would not have been worth the effort.

[@FranckLarsen]

👍😂

[@BenjWarrant]

"It's a very famous woman..." "Yeah, the Flying Nun!" Lightning wit, there!

[@ChantalMonette]

I'm a simple woman, I see Dr. Janega, I click

[@bencaspar]

I do the same thing. Am I a simple woman? 😮

[@bunnygamercog]

Fellow simple woman checking in! 💜✨

[@donny_doyle]

I'm a complicated man, I see the good doctor, and I click also.

[@CrniWuk]

Not to confuse with Dr. Jenga.

[@burtlangoustine1]

These declarations from simpletons all over youtube must be Bots.

[@rocketpsyence]

She is so funny i could watch like 5 hours of her hating on ai

[@juliajs1752]

Right? This needs to be a series!

[@apanapandottir205]

Check out the podcast "We're not so different" it's the best.

[@carolinejames7257]

So, yes to Dr Janega being tortured more?

[@DraconicImperator]

29:01 "The English said they should get to be King of France because It's not fair and mom said I can have a turn" is just so hilariously on point for the initial dispute I had to pause the video to laugh.

[@lyalldawson7080]

In a way it is true. The English claim to France was based largely on inheritance from Eleanor of Aquitaine.

[@danvernier198]

The problem with that statement is that she calls them English and French not the trivialisation of the motivation. That's very much what set off the conflict. But to refer to them as nations is a bit dubious. This conflict is the beginning of the journey towards becoming nations rather than random wealthy families that spoke the same language in both areas and possessed land in both areas.

[@alicemilne1444]

​@@danvernier198Exactly. In her quest to make history "relatable" and fun, Janega quite often falsifies what actually happened.

[@warlordofbritannia]

@@lyalldawson7080 No, that’s Guyenne/Aquitaine. The claim to the French throne was derived through Isabella the She-Wolf, French princess and mother of Edward III.

[@homero_con_lechuguilla]

She said Henry VIII was a jerk. I provide thy like button.

[@Sir_Nutenzail]

Did you mean press? KZbin provides the like button.

[@CMI2017]

Her comment was a glib anachronism and wrong. Henry VIII headed a tenuous dynasty that had a meagre thread of legitimacy and many domestic enemies. That he renounced his & the nation's faith - to become defender of the faith as the monarch still is, in order to preserve his dynasty, is about temporal power.

[@peterworwood6483]

@@CMI2017 plenty of people at the time thought he was a jerk, plenty of people now do - what you mentioned he did has everything to do with that

[@CMI2017]

@@peterworwood6483 confirmation bias does not prove an argument, not from 500 years later. He was the English state & state power affords considerable extension of action in its retention.

[@shosty575]

@CMI2017 damn I didn't know Henry VIII apologists are a thing

[@otakarschon]

Wow, never would have guessed Dr. Janega speaks Czech. I would love her review the historical accuracy of Kingdom Come Deliverance game or it's upcoming sequel, should be right up her alley!

[@FrankieKeepsGoing]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@Far1988]

Yes, this! Especially since it's centered around Kutna Hora which was, at the time, one of the biggest and richest cities and a huge competitor to Prague, because it was one of the hot spots for mining silver. I've you've never been there and happen to be in Czechia, please visit. Kutna Hora is beautiful and it also has a very famous ossuary: Sedlec.

[@goodday126]

Let's not get too carried away with doctor talk.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I remember when they said AI would make life easier, reduce mundane tasks. Instead all we get is it stealing artists work and doing a bad interpretation of it.

[@nigeh5326]

I went to high school in the late 70s here in Britain and our teachers told us when the new technology came in we would all; have extra leisure time, all be rich there would be no need for masses of paperwork as offices would be paperless and machines would do all the hard physical labour 🙄. Now nearly 50 years on and none of it has come true. People work longer hours, for less money, paperwork is still duplicated despite also being on computer systems and apart from Roomba vacuums we still have to do manual tasks.

[@heneagedundas]

​@@nigeh5326 And you still have to manually clean the Roomba when it runs over dog crap.

[@CrniWuk]

@@nigeh5326 Well it turns out that technology is "neutral". In other words. It can be used for good and improving lives. But it can be also used to deepen the wealth inequality and increase social issues. The industrial revolution is a perfect example for this. When it happend, it was terrible for the majoritiy of people. Labour and agriculture suffered greatly and it took several generations to get out of it. Once that was over though the benefits of it started to come in which we still see even to this day. But this idea that technology has always like inherently lead to improvements? I believe that's wrong.

[@GilTheDragon]

& spending 10x as long trying to find the right results on search engines. I still cant believe this shit was easier when i had to concurrently use Netscape, Webscape, Jeeves & company

[@shawnstrife5527]

"all we get"? ::sigh:: what you describe as "all we get" is the barest, tiniest, fraction of the tip of the AI iceberg. if that's "all" you're getting from AI (hint: it isn't), you're doing life wrong

[@christamarie818]

If the video has Eleanor Janega, Kate Lister, or Suzannah Lipscomb, I'm here for it. My history holy trinity 💖💖

[@Cypresssina]

I see your excellent list and would like to add Claire Ridgway.

[@danic9304]

'The English decided they should get to be king of France, because it's not fair and Mom said they could have a turn' 🤣🤣 just brilliant

[@richardjakobek7477]

Well, the English kings at that time, had a claim on the French throne, because they were descended from Eleanor of Aquitaine.

[@TexRenner]

Thanks for speaking out about this trend. It is up to the content producers to care enough about what is in their videos to look at the images they accept and learn enough about the subject to know if those images are accurate. I have to skip over bad ones all the time.

[@Teverell]

To be fair, you don't even have to know the era to know a picture's done by AI. Just look at the details shown - the cloaks that grow out of the clothing worn under it, the OMG nightmare fuels hands or blank stares, the thing that has wheels on two adjacent sides and nowhere to hitch a horse or ox - there are so many things that give AI pictures away to anyone who spends even a moment looking at them. The issue is, really, that people don't know how to think critically about things any more. AI was supposed to take over the boring mundane things so that people had time to be creative, not take over the creative stuff so that people had more time for boring mundane chores.

[@peterjones7673]

I love listening to Dr Eleanor, she always explains everything brilliantly and in such a great way you enjoy every minute of her lectures.

[@yuliya6219]

Awesome idea and great episode, thank you Eleanor and history hit! It would be really nice to hear more about the Prague history!

[@wembleysmama7899]

Agreed! Eleanor often speaks of being a Prague specialist and I love to learn of things I am not well educated on. As an American, please teach me something I don’t know about one of the most influential and powerful regimes in history.

[@silasrobertshaw8122]

More defenestration and such!

[@AludraEltaninAltair]

Yes! More Prague! More Bohemia! More Holy Roman Empire!

[@QueenGrapefruit]

Ok but I WOULD LOVE a multipart series on medieval Prague/Bohemia/Holy Roman Empire!! I feel like it was confusing in school so I just skipped it. But the drama of 7 guys electing the emperor? Dr Janega would absolutely rock it!!

[@brittakriep2938]

In second half of 17th two more Kurfürsten/ electors had been added: Hannover and Bavaria.

[@joshuawells835]

"I know what Americans think like because I've been cursed." - That got a good laugh out of me.

[@DJL78]

This was so good! 😂😂 More of Dr. Janega! She would be so fun to have drinks with. 🍸

[@ronlowfi]

Partying with the Dr. would be awesome!🎉❤😍

[@davidsaville5239]

Hell yesss

[@wakingthewitch457]

Name the time and place and I am there!

[@UnDead483]

I have also had this thought a few times! She would be the most awesome companion for a pub crawl!

[@davidsaville5239]

@@UnDead483 especially in historic pubs!!

[@beagleissleeping5359]

The problem I have with badly created AI images is not with the image itself. It's when someone sees a badly created AI image and it doesn't click in their brain that it's fake and they share it raving about how amazing it is.

[@larrykelly-kf5pp]

Or are bots sharing it?

[@beagleissleeping5359]

@larrykelly-kf5pp sometimes both. A bot puts it on there to begin with, and then people share it because they like the pictures. Then there's always at least one person who thinks that it's actually something real and shares it to try and find out where to buy one despite the fact that it looks like a cartoon.......

[@larrykelly-kf5pp]

@ I worry that in critiquing we’re just training young Albert to do better while we try to protect vulnerable people. 🤔 Hard to know but I guess we’ll work it out eventually

[@DBProductions12345-m]

It's bots that share it. Humans have a baseline level of intelligence that lets us clearly see whats AI and what isn't

[@beagleissleeping5359]

@DBProductions12345-m An example of what I mean is I've seen a site that sells plants. The images are clearly AI and not the actual plants. People comment on "how beautiful" and "how amazing" and when someone posts a picture of the actual plant or points this out, the comment gets deleted half the time. Unless the positive comments are made by bots, too, to bring up the popularity?🤔

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I saw an AI christmas advert being advertised by a legitimate company Opendoor which I presumed is run by people with eyes in which the Turkey had 7 legs! On a side note the laziness and greed of these companies knows no bounds.

[@Elydir]

I saw a populist party in my country, with a fairly large following no less, use AI to depict a perfect, white heterosexual family (somehow they were all blonde too), all of them with 6+ fingers. Do you think any of their followers actually cared?

[@Tailssonic1999x]

Check out the Toys R Us AI ad. It's horrendous

[@bethje30]

Why can't there be a rule that under every AI created image it should say: image created by AI. It's not hard....

[@ScreamingIntoTheOvoid]

“Vomited by AI”

[@The13thGhostBunny]

Because then people couldn't pass it off as their own work. 😛

[@EmmaElizabethX]

I'm a simple girl, I see Dr Eleanor and I watch - never disappointed by her incredible knowledge and delivery!!!

[@gbcb8853]

Magna Carta obviously wrong because it wasn’t signed half way down. When asked ‘where was Magna Carta signed?’, every English schoolboy responds “at the bottom of the page.”

[@Crusty_Camper]

That's so true. And then a clever clogs kid tells everyone they didn't sign it at all, the put their wax seals on it. The King's seal was the bigliest, obviously.

[@danvernier198]

Well, the practice of the time is that the stamp on the seal hanging from the document is what legitimises it. So both the middle and the bottom are equally wrong, the name would have been written by a scribe near the top and the stamp in the wax blob hanging from the paper would have been the equivalent of a "signature".

[@gbcb8853]

@@Crusty_Camper my vote is for "...on the dotted line."

[@alangilbertson8239]

The Lindisfarne example also ignores the fact that the monastery ruins are to be found in the present day village, two-thirds of a mile to the west of the castle and on the opposite side of the harbour, not next to it as in the AI cartoon.

[@Meredith36]

Once again, this is another video I never knew I needed in my life. Dr Janega is simply goals.

[@alanakmassey]

Joan of Arc was famously executed in the styling of and on the set of Dune: Prophesy on HBO.

[@lucyrobinson2814]

Tleilaxu facedancers too!

[@DivyaUthup]

😂😂🤣🤣😂

[@zlutaveverka3784]

As both a historian and a fellow Czech , I had exactly the same reaction to the fake Prague! 😱

[@reader1956]

This was a great load of fun. I loved hearing all the details you picked out as false; especially gray walls and ceilings.

[@bunnygamercog]

Yay! It’s an early Xmas present, more Dr Janega content!! 🎁

[@seriliaykilel]

Omg this was great - her level of shade is perfect. Please bring her back for more reactions to AI!

[@xwrn]

The Monty Python clips dish so hard. 👨‍🍳💋 Yes, even a low budget 70s absurd comedy featuring men pretending to ride horses can be arsed to do better research than your AI.

[@fr.andygutierrez5356]

This was hilarious… great video for a long drive! Fun fact: a bishop’s hat is called a mitre, at least today in the Catholic Church. Either in this period It was different, or she was referring to the papal tiara, which only the pope wore, not any other bishop.

[@monkeytennis8861]

There's a special in hell for lame people who us the term "fun fact". Also, that wasn't a fun fact.

[@fr.andygutierrez5356]

@ I used it simply because she used it to describe the bishop’s hat in the video. Also, you would do well to stop using the concept of hell so frivolously. Peace.

[@Uncle_T]

8:09 Had me laughing out loud! Brilliant punmanship! 🤣🤣

[@meltz87]

Love Dr EJ! She's real about things, very entertaining, and so darn smart.

[@mattbarneveld815]

Don't know how I didn't know you were a Prague-ophile Dr Janega (considering how much of your content I have watched), but that just makes you rock even more in my eyes!! My favourite city in the world. Love the history, love the architecture, love the ambience and love the people 🙂

[@thebowandbullet]

Ahoj, Dr Janega! Always a pleasure to see your videos and the entertaining way you present history. 😊

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

Yeah, I feel your pain. AI is doing my head in too. Especially You Tube thumbnails. If I see one more picture for a Roman Legionary who looks more like a Spartan from the film 300 I shall scream and not be held responsible for my future actions. I mean, we all worried about the future picture in the Terminator films, but we certainly didn't see this nightmare coming.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I think another issue is also not one thing AI produces is new, it is just an amalgamation of data put into it. All these images look so familiar. It is creating nothing new, stagnating and regressing art.

[@fawng8017]

It's cud. It takes people's real creativity, ingenuity, and innovation and reconstitutes into soulless slop for the masses to mindlessly chew on

[@MidWitPride]

Aren't humans just an amalgamation of our experiences? Why is "true novelty" the benchmark for artistic greatness here? Is there a correlation where fewer common elements an art piece has, the better it is? Data itself might not be new, but there are endless number of ways to arrange it. Child grown in absolute darkness with no experiences would not make for a great artist. Inspiration and vision aren't willed by the soul into existence from the ether.

[@KilianMuster]

"And that's why I'm a Prague specialist, 'cause it's the best!" 😂😂😂 She is lit! Now I've got to dig through KZbin to watch more of her stuff…

[@nathanielgill]

Dr Eleanor Janega is... the mother I never had. she is the sister everybody would want. she is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

[@robinjohnhill7556]

Your the best Eleanor! I love your presentation your sense of humour and I adore all you do on the history Channel. Give us more please.

[@therapymutt1468]

I fucking love Dr Janega, hellz yeah

[@calkig]

Dr. Janega, my favorite History Hit host!

[@BabsMcHugh550]

I love history hit, obvs, and I love the way Eleanor Janega presents. So warm, so natural, so incredibly informed. Hi from an Australian fan

Bro, wake up! New medieval torture method just dropped! (Except this only works on medievalists.)

[@nicoM73]

More Dr. Janega please!

[@nigeh5326]

I could happily spend a week wandering around historic Britain with Dr Janega as long as we could spend the evenings in bars drinking and talking about how bloody awful many monarchs were. Cheers Doctor Janega 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@MachaMongRuad]

I think you'd have quite a merry band to join you! 😂🍻💜

[@justbreathe549]

That sounds like an awesome time!!!

[@williamrobinson7435]

Great! I wondered where Dr. Janega had got to. It's reassuring if AI is crap. This is a public service film! Nice one Eleanor and team. 🌟👍

[@robertpearson8798]

The sad part is all of the people who will tell her to “chill out, they’re only pictures, have you not heard of artistic license, get a life”.

[@natefahrenbrook2132]

The AI art shown was not something I was personally into, but the segment with William the Conqueror around time-tagged at 26:28 minutes in with the depiction of some of the old intact art pieces, I did like that; I enjoyed the overall historical explanations that Dr. Eleanor Janega provided when she explained each period of historical reference that the AI art attempted to depict.

[@Isrjisoneavalable]

I imagine this could be a great assignment for 1st history undergraduates (especially those who think they can use AI to do assignments for them…). Get AI to create an image of one of these historical events, then write a short essay explaining what the AI got wrong. Finish by explaining why you think this image could be misleading to a someone who doesn’t study history

[@richardsonrym]

"Medieval people thought being bald was sexy" - somehow I am halfway into building a time machine to go get a weird form of the plague because I was too thirsty.

[@icyboi13]

I need more Eleanor videos in my life! 💜 This was so entertaining & yet thoughtful

[@sew.medieval]

Dr Janega is so much fun, doesn't matter what part of the middle ages she's taking about, it's a good time.

[@DerrillGuilbert]

I had no idea there was someone like this on History Hit. I have no subscribed. This is the most fun I've had on youtube in a LONG time.

[@toshirodragon]

Check out the We're Not So Different podcast. Dr Janega kills it!

[@anonnymousperson]

21:51 - that side eye after the realisation.

[@PaulHaigh072]

7:58 accent notwithstanding, no one has ever sounded more English. ‘No they bloody well didn’t’ 👏

[@j.s.walker3656]

What I despise about AI is how it straight up steals from actual artists and then vomits out these crappy images

[@ViaFerrataCH]

Very generous ratings

[@alisong2328]

This was fun! (FYI - a bishop's hat is called a "mitre," not a "tiara." A "tiara" is a three-tiered crown worn by the Pope.)

[@dannygallaghermisc7593]

Absolutely my fave historian! We want more eleanor!

[@arkemiffo]

My favourite explanation of the 100-years war. "is when the English decided that they should get to be kings of France because it's not fair and mom said they could have a turn".

[@moulinnoir8956]

I really enjoyed Dr. Eleanor Janega's commentary both educational and otherwise - I hope you have her back again!

[@karlkarlos3545]

Despite making fun of the worst thing ever invented in my lifetime, this video was also super informative and educational. Upvote and please make more!

[@nyarparablepsis872]

As an Assyriologist I feel this in the depths of my soul.

[@Spondre]

I asked Chatbot to create an image of Dr. Eleanor Janega as a medieval historian at work. They ended up looking a lot like the AI image of Eleanor of Aquitaine although she had eyeglasses and a pen in each hand!

[@wembleysmama7899]

I believe she would love that! What a compliment!

[@Fantavaria]

Ah doctors so have eye glasses

[@rwv3n]

AI is not worth the money and technology we have put into it, I fail to see how AI creates a better anything. AI doesnt depict humans as they are not human, just a blobby outline of what maybe looks like the form of a human if you look very far away. Dont like the AI but love Eleanor! She makes medieval history so much fun and accessible! I'm a subscriber of HH and this channel and I would love to see more docus/videos with her in it!

[@Jonathan-d8d7i]

AI: Actual Idiocy. Art for Idiots. Awfully Inept. Act of Insanity?

[@AmperSand666]

AI is still in its infancy. We'll talk next year.

[@TheWipeout32]

@@AmperSand666 It'd be more impressive if I hadn't been hearing that last year. That said, I'm less scared of AI than I am the clowns who are running the companies that are trying to invent it. AI should be a national project, overseen by the government, transparently run with the interest of the public in mind. Not the vanity projects of spoiled and entitled rich boys. We've been here before with social media, and look how that turned out.

[@southernwindsfarm1587]

“Asinine interpretation “

[@mr.l7471]

Finally a historian who talks down about how horrible AI is, thank you History Hit 👍

[@martyh7771]

Very pro this Eleanor reacts style - the fashion tier lists were great, if you decide against further torture. But I'd be up for asking AI historical questions and making fun of its answers too.

[@cireenasimcox1081]

We weren't really TV people but this was kinda like watching a movie with my parents. "Oh, for godssake - men didn't wear shirts with attached collars then." or "Look at her, unbound hair and make-up! She would have been run out of town!" etc. I rather think that's why I became an historian.

[@ronwingrove683]

I thought the first one was the Rock of Cashel at first, but of course not on an island. Edited to add that if this is what happens when you put Dr. Janega in front of a camera and let her go off script, please let her do it more often.

[@PrincessQuinnevere]

I am a simple gal, I see Dr Eleanor Janega talking and I hit the like button.

[@Fred-wb5nz]

Im a simple man. I just repeat what others have already commented.

[@paulannable3734]

I’m not a particularly intelligent man, but I cringe when I see people mindlessly repeating trite shite they’ve seen other people write.

[@TheMadHattam]

Beyond the humor involved, this is a very productive discussion to be having around nascent AI. The mismatch that is obvious to the specialist but hidden to most others under a kind of 'confidence' that AI presents all its outputs, particularly images of this nature. More of this kind of content is only likely to rise and it's nice to see a presentation of that AI-Human exchange as centering the importance of human knowledge, understanding and nuance as critical. Dr. Janega's generous thought experiments on behalf of the AI are particularly helpful and I imagine very accurate to the flow of neural network encoding. Maybe because any academic has an understanding with the hyper-intelligent child-student that an AI can be conceived as, but certainly because of her innate empathy even amid the same kind of sharp wit that makes these videos enjoyable at the expense of technological fumblings forward. 🤖🦄🤖

[@Matllo09]

Thank you for playing two of my favorite Quest for the Holy Grail moments.

[@powerfrenzy]

I was hoping to see clips from Becket and The Lion in Winter, with all this talk of Henry II's friends, family, and relations. Alas.

[@amylonghoffman8906]

Had this on for back ground noise while I hand sew some Christmas stuff. I did not sew more than a dozen stitches. This would be an amazing series. Like the expert answers google stuff. Watching Eleanor hand the battle picture to Dan Jones for comment would BE a gift.

[@jennagriffith9016]

Was the Joan of Arc picture pulling from US puritan witch trials? That would account for some of the severe dress and everyone wearing almost the same thing. While I didn't believe everyone dressed identically at that time either, they did dress in a more similar way.

[@g5rearea]

I thought it was trying to be some 17th century witch trial! Though the colonies only hanged their witches.

[@MedievalKitty]

Your comment about knowing how Americans think because you have been cursed cracked me up 😂-I definitely feel your pain! BTW, love listening to you & Matt on Gone Medieval.

[@PishogueEsq]

"Fresh horrors, let's go."

[@mcidral]

I need a series of this every week and I would pay for it.

[@LocrianDorian]

AI is just nowhere near it needs to be given the hype. It's like cavemen getting hyped up because they managed to accidentally set up a little shack which will collapse with the first mild gust of wind. It's a start, but it isn't ready for prime time.

[@carador9286]

AI is pretty good. With the correct instructions, the results can be deceptively real and indistinguishable from real medieval art, at least for non-experts. So in the case of poor AI images, it is usually not the AI that is at fault, but the user.

[@vickywitton1008]

Cave men were a million times better at art than AI

[@NekomiSon]

@@vickywitton1008this.

[@NekomiSon]

@@carador9286it is the ai and the user…

[@1948MartinezJose]

As a Czech, I''m with you on the "I'm offended, let's get the heck out of here!" boat 😄

[@CharlieNoodles]

This is the problem with AI. It’s NOT a data retrieval system. When you throw a prompt at a generative AI model, it doesn’t know what you’re asking it to do and it doesn’t know what it’s giving you. What it does is give you an amalgamation of what it thinks is most likely to be the answer. It’s obnoxious and I’m frankly terrified for our future because we will be so flooded with AI generated garbage people won’t know what’s real and what’s not.

[@SteveAvenell]

Thank you Dr. Jenega. I loved all of the random historical details (No chimneys! Bad AI!) you explained while reviewing the images. The video certainly illustrates that AI has not achieved a level of sophistication to draw a historically accurate picture without a lot of effort. I attempted to recreate a more accurate image of London during the great mortality, but ChatGPT refuses to draw, replying with "I'm sorry, but I was still (3rd try) unable to generate the image because the request, even as an oil painting, remains in conflict with the content policy due to its focus on sensitive historical themes involving the plague." I guess that explains why plague London had no people. The irony is that I used the freshly released ChatGPT 1o to draft the prompt. I find this far more concerning than the quality of the images. Our history is not pretty. I worry that seen through the filters placed on AI our history will be sanitized to the point of meaningless. There clearly is no precedent for that (Wink)

[@NardoVogt]

"henry the VIII was a jerk." Summarized to perfection

[@frederickschwarz246]

Dr Janega is so passionate & down to earth, humanocentric in her analysis. Highest Praise!!!

[@shirleyandrews1152]

Lindisfarne was also attacked by Monty Python “we seek the Holy Grail”🤣😂😅

[@wanderingspark]

As someone who visited Prague once 20 years ago, I can confirm that I yelled 'Nope! Rejected!' at the screen as soon as I realized that that was supposed to be medieval Prague. There are so many surviving examples of actual 14th c. architecture in Prague. AI could have just showed us a photo of Charles Bridge, or St. Vitus Cathedral, or Prague Castle, and it would have been much more accurate, but AI isn't smart enough to do that.

[@juliajs1752]

I'll watch the video later, but upvote now. AI generated "historical" images are a plague and need to be eradicated. Let's not get started on AI generated "facts" ...

[@pirbird14]

LeagleEagle did a video recently begging people not to use AI lawyers. AI lawyers?!?!?! Who in F's name would trust their fate to an AI lawyer?

[@soccerchamp0511]

As a public historian of a different time period, I completely understand the pain, Dr Janega! I swear these AI images are pretty much the same as the general public's perception of history, no matter what time period we're talking about. Thank you for enduring it for our entertainment.😄

[@Spondre]

I am expecting to have a plot twist at the end were we find out that all the pics were real and it is Eleanor that is AI generated.

[@2Cats_ina_Trenchcoat]

Now that would be impressive. 😂

[@foreverwander0320]

Ok I was so distracted by how lovely Eleanor was I had to go back and rewatch the beginning. Great idea for a video! I think of this whenever I see a weird AI thumbnail for a history video.

[@steverobbins4274]

The thing about AI is that its just an aggressive search engine with the ability to make pretty pictures. You have to remember at all times that AI is not definitive. It is not absolute. Junk in junk out.

[@PariahEarth]

Jaromir Jagr is the current living embodiment of Czech greatness.

[@wembleysmama7899]

Thank you! I have many of the same reactions (although obviously not as scholarly) and friends find me pedantic and it’s frustrating because we should be accurate in our historical repartee.

[@MacDorsai]

I enjoy history and I really enjoy your videos. History isn't dates and names, it's people. You do a very good job of talking about the people and making them live (in a manner of speaking) again. And let me say that I would absolutely love to watch a video where you took a drink every time they screwed something up. The humor when you were three sheets to the wind would be epic and hilarious.

[@SavannahLyttle-r3t]

When I grow up (I say fully as a grown up) I want to be a historian that’s just as fun as Eleanor Janega

[@nilo70]

Eleanor is the reason I’m watching this. Educational and Entertaining every single time.