Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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But I don’t understand why people feel the need to pretend it’s real, just share it as AI, the building won’t be any less gorgeous because of it.

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The recent rise in programs allowing users to generate images through AI has resulted in an increase in fake historical photos. In some cases, people have created them expressly to spread disinformation. History's "Mountain Men" is totally about history, because it features people pretending like they are living in the 17th century ... except for when they watch television while no one is looking. Physician Johann Beringer was amazed when he was presented with fossils “found” in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1725, which depicted incredible scenes: the forms of birds, bees, snails, lizards, plants with flowers, frogs mating and insects feeding, not to mention comets, moons and suns. In images from the moon landing, it is possible to see certain objects even though they are in shadow. Skeptics argue that if the sun were the only source of light, this wouldn’t be the case. Therefore, the fact that you can see some objects in shadow must be the result of special Hollywood lighting.From ancient Rome up to the present day, stories that are not true or are meant to be misleading have been used to make money, change people’s views and opinions and make us question who we can trust. For me, the main problem is that it's fake history, I don't mind AI stuff but you should always know it's fake or you get a wrong impression about the past, no matter how you look at it, the image is a lie. Denial of America’s great progress in space exploration and belief in these myths is “more of an ideological thing—a political thing—than it is a scientific thing,” Fienberg notes. Johann Heinrich Cohausen, an 18th-century physician, wrote a treatise on the prolongation of life, entitled Hermippus redivivus. Amongst other secrets of longevity, it claimed that life could be prolonged by taking an elixir produced by collecting the breath of young women in bottles. Over the years, the development of technology has helped fake news spread through inventions like the printing press, photography and social media.

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You really can find the Upas tree in Indonesia. Though not as potent as legend would have it, the latex of the tree does contain a powerful toxin, which was traditionally used on arrow points. Some claims of pseudohistory or pseudoscience do warrant public concern: for example, Holocaust denial, the teaching of creationism or 'intelligent design', or portraying global warming as a hoax. These are significant to both public and personal decision making. To solve such problems, Fritze suggests more teaching of critical thinking (pp. 60, 219). This would seem plausible, were it not for the empirical evidence otherwise. Belief in the paranormal is extraordinarily resilient to such teaching (as currently taught). Levels of belief, for example, have remained steady over several decades as 'critical thinking' instruction has spread. Deeper thinking seems to be correlated, rather, with personalities that are open to new experiences, and that also exercise high standards of proof: reflecting a natural selection epistemic model, coupling blind variation and selective retention. (18) Education surely seems appropriate, but only if we use a better model of 'critical thinking' (or 'rationality'). More effective education will also need to respect the research literature on teaching and learning. Informed educators now reject the model of authority whereby teachers list known fallacies, provide illustrations, and test for recall and taxonomy. Professional educators underscore the value of problem-based learning. Students need to be engaged in the process to develop skills: by following exemplars and practicing applications. Episodes such as those Fritze discusses could be valuable case studies in such an education. But to be effective, one must recreate the historical contexts, problems and information at hand as in historical simulations. One must sympathize with the central characters and appreciate the reasonableness of error, given an incomplete view. That can then be contrasted to the later, more complete view. One must appreciate the 'ironic diptych' of reasonableness and falsity that often characterizes history. (19) Understanding the awkward relationship of alternative perspectives is how one can tame relativism without resorting to artificial absolutes. (20) Fritze's accounts, unfortunately, leave us wanting for just such an enriched historical understanding. Notes After watching the programme, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own tree. Alas, it was an April Fools’ Day joke.Hands are what I examine first, most AI programmes still have problems with hands and you often see that people have too many fingers or they just look weird. The reality competition "Alone" is totally about history, because everything you'll see in any given episode was shot in the historical timeframe of six months ago. The writer of the articles knew the story wasn’t true and had meant for this to be satire. This is when a writer uses humour and exaggeration to make fun of silly ideas, in this case that there were creatures living on the Moon. So our advice to reality stars is this: Do high-quality work. According to the Vegas Tourist, though, at least one reality star has failed to follow that piece of advice. There are many more examples of fossil fraud, such as the fake “ entombed toad” and the fake fossil fly in amber. The Sokal hoax

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This iconic selfie of a pilot photographing himself in the air was actually a photo of him when he was safely landed, but it's important to mention, that even on the land, it's a pretty cool selfie! They wrongly claimed the discoveries were made by a well-known astronomer at the time, which helped people to believe the story was true. Perhaps the most common question that is posed to museum staff and educators dealing with things like fossils and other artefacts is: “Is it real?”. In itself, it’s a perfectly reasonable question, especially when someone has the unexpected privilege to touch and hold a specimen and wants to know if this really is an original of some kind. But even with millions of pieces digitised, there are blank spaces that influence what can even be explored. Mimi Ọnụọha, an artist and researcher whose work also explores technology and culture, points out that what is selected to be included in a dataset is always a limiting factor and one that builds in biases, whether intentional or not. Projects like Babylon Vision are already limited by what museums choose to collect and then choose to digitise. But AI and other digital technologies can create ways to explore those gaps. “The technologies don’t change how these pieces were collected in the first place,” Ọnụọha says. “But they provide the different ways to interrogate it.”History (real history, lowercase "h") remembers the Sam Adams of 1765 as a middle-aged dude with a paunch, but in "Sons of Liberty" he's, um, not like that. In fact, he's not only swoonworthy, he's also surprisingly nimble for a 43-year-old dude. And that's not the show's only inaccuracy — the Journal of the American Revolution listed 22 missteps just in the first episode.

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A closer look, however, reveals that this is nothing new: cuticle culture has long been entangled in highly charged matters, from classism and racial discrimination to politics and human rights issues. In 1912, solicitor and amateur palaeontologist Charles Dawson “found” the Piltdown fossils, a skull and jawbone that appeared to be half-man half-ape, in Sussex. They were hailed as the evolutionary “missing link” between apes and humans. If he was at all remorseful, he had a strange way of showing it: not long after his arrival he started the Poyais pitch all over again. His initial investment may have evaporated, but his mastery of the art of persuasion was undiminished. In a matter of months, he had a new group of settlers and investors ready to go. France, though, was a bit more stringent than England in its passport requirements: when the government saw a flood of applications to a country no one had heard of, a commission was set to investigate the matter. MacGregor was thrown in jail. After a brief return to Edinburgh, he was forced to flee once more, pursued by the wrath of the original Poyais bondholders. He died in 1845, in Caracas. To this day, the land that was Poyais remains a desolate and undeveloped wilderness—a testament to the power of the rope in able hands. The sepia-toned image, by German artist Boris Eldagsen, shows two women, the first with her arms wrapped around the second. Entitled “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician”, it won a prize at the Sony World Photography Awards. However, Eldagsen turned it down. Closer to home, in 1917 during the First World War, British newspapers such as the Times and the Daily Mail ran a gruesome story claiming that the Germans were extracting fat from the bodies of dead soldiers on both sides of the war to make soap and margarine.

A photo of a kid sleeping near his deceased parents' grave in Syria turned out to a piece of staged photography since the kid knew the photographer and the graves did not belong to his parents. Although this type of photojournalism is still completely heartbreaking it proves once again you can't trust everything you see online. For her part, Teeuwisse admits that she would have liked for the photo to be real. She wrote about it in her blog : Then I put them through a reverse image search to try and find when & where they were uploaded first, this often tells us more about the source. This would be an amazing mountain to visit, but if it actually existed, there is a great chance you would know more about it and more people would visit it. Also, there would be a far greater amount of photos from this location. So, when somebody went to that location and actually captured the mountain, it was no surprise that the "Turtle Mountain" is actually just the simple, yet beautiful ""Pilot Mountain" in North Carolina.