Based on intensive reading this summer (I'm not an expert in this field), I would say that #AIed is 90% made of bulshit. And it's even worse, I must say, when those articles are dealing with AI and history teaching. This thread is, on the contrary, not bulshit at all. Read it!

Lecture achevée, le livre de @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social et Frédéric Clavert est d’une très grande richesse et finesse sur l’histoire telle qu’elle se pratique aujourd’hui, au-delà même des seuls enjeux numériques. Indispensable à qui en fait son métier, je dirais même obligatoire à partir du M1 !

les chapitres 1 et 2 discutent de tout ceci, et montrent en particulier la grande variété des rapports à "l'archive" aujourd'hui, depuis ceux et celles qui maintiennent un long temps de travail en salle, et ceux et celles qui n'en ont pas besoin. A suivre 😊

Merci à toi pour ce thread!

Yes, yesterday was an important day for both of us. With a bit of AI but far more than AI.

Un livre écrit par deux historien.nes, @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social et @artificialmemory.bsky.social , qui parlent d'une manière intelligente du numérique parce qu'ils le pratiquent depuis longtemps et qu'ils l'approchent comme un 'bête' sujet de sciences humaines #paniquesmoralessabstenir

Vidéos commémoratives genAI : « ça a le goût de l’époque, mais c’est truffé d’erreurs » next.ink/197554/video... J'ai interviewé l'historien Frédéric Clavert sur l'utilisation de l'IA générative pour créer des images et des vidéos de vulgarisation d'Histoire et à des fins commémoratives.

An interview of Frédéric Clavert (maintainer of this account) on the use of generative AI for memorial and historical aims. next.ink/197554/video... In French. #ai #dh #dighist #memory #history

New in our Artificial Memory bibliography: « ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right » by Tania González-Cantera and Chiara Bonacchi. International Journal of Heritage Studies 08/2025.

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

I'teresting thread on teaching in the age of AI: "detokenizing classes".

New in our artificial memory bibliography: Makhortykh, M., and M. Bareikytė. “AI Visions: Representing Russia’s War Against Ukraine for Humans and Machines.” Digital Warfare: Media and Technologies in the Russo-Ukrainian War, N. Zasanska and N. Ivanenko (ed), transcript Verlag, 2025. #ai #memory

"Against generative AI" An interesting bibliography (even if you are not against generative AI) by @cjdenial.bsky.social catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

'By choosing AI for its remembrance policy, the French government is automating an intellectual process'

And Le Monde translated this op-ed in english. Find it here: www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

In Memory of Wulf Kansteiner (1964-2025) It was with great shock and sadness that we heard of the death of Wulf Kansteiner, who passed away suddenly on August 8. We will never forget his commitment to our Leibniz Research Alliance Value of the Past, of which he was a member of the advisory board.

« En choisissant l’IA pour sa politique mémorielle, le gouvernement automatise un travail intellectuel »

"Pourtant, l’Etat dispose de toutes les données et savoir-faire pour réaliser une vidéo commémorative de grande qualité : les archives nationales et territoriales, la Bibliothèque nationale de France, l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel, les universités." www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

« En choisissant l’IA pour sa politique mémorielle, le gouvernement automatise un travail intellectuel » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Je vous résume cette tribune : 1) les élèves n'ont plus la culture légitime et c'était mieux quand ils lisaient le latin et 2) l'ia les rend bête. BOF. www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete...

This article from Le Monde (www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete...) is at the same level than Niall Ferguson's a few weeks ago (niallferguson.substack.com/p/ais-great-...). AI does not matter here. What matters is the authors conservative and elitist views on universities. AI is just a pretext.

There's already a quite large literature on ai & teaching. A lot is big & beautiful bullshit, but some is quite good. And there's article on AI & Education since the 1970s, with people promising a near to come revolution in education for 50y. See here, unfiltered: www.zotero.org/inactinique/...

[Reading] Frédéric Clavert ds 1 Tribune du journal @lemonde.fr :"Le recours à l’intelligence artificielle (IA) par les ministères pour créer des vidéos commémoratives peut aboutir à des résultats plus que douteux" => www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... #AI #GenAI #histoire #France #mémoire #commemoration

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... (Title and intro are not from me) #ai #memory #history

A terrible news. Though we know this is not the core of his research, "digital doping for historians" (History & Theory) is a must read if you are interested in AI and history.

A great loss...

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

“History Teaching and Artificial Intelligence”. Ennals, Richard, published in *Teaching History* in… June **1982**! www.jstor.org/stable/43256... #dighist #dh #ai

"AI's great brain robbery" Niall Ferguson www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... How AI is becoming a pretext for restoring a conservative and elitist vision of the university and of the historical sciences.

Though a bit too general, a definitively important article.

Final day of the formal programme of @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social and our Director contributed to a roundtable on handling the #AI hype in #MemoryStudies

Today at Memory Studies Association annual meeting (MSA Prague): 📣📣📣 15.30-17.00 CET: Lab Director Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden's talk on New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies in light of the 'fourth wave' and the field's interest in AI. #MSAPrague2025 #MemoryStudies #MemoryPolitics

This thread departs somewhat from the editorial line of this account, but it remains within memory studies. It should be considered as a personal reflection by Frédéric Clavert.

"Large AI models are cultural and social technologies" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New in our AI & Collective Memory bibliography: Stjernholm Emil, Eriksson Maria et Mohammadi Norén Fredrik, « On the Historical Gaze of Generative AI: Visions of Scandinavia in Stable Diffusion », Scandinavian Journal of History, 25.06.2025, pp. 1‑31. doi.org/10.1080/0346...

New in our AI & Collective memory bibliography: - Offert Fabian, « On the Concept of History (in Foundation Models) », IMAGE 37 (1), 05.2023, pp. 121‑134. doi.org/10.1453/1614...

From 2024: « Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis ». www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24... This was mentiong in africasacountry.com/2024/04/when... — an article that comments many images linked to racialization and coloniality in the AI era. #ai

"The afterlife of art. Can AI bring back the dead?" culture.lu/blog/article...

"The role of the University is to resist AI". Dan McQuillan. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

OpenAI as an Empire. Interview of Karen Hao (The Atlantic) in Libération Karen Hao : «OpenAI utilise plus d’argent et de ressources naturelles qu’il n’en a été nécessaire pour aller sur la Lune» www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

this is now online! check out the recording on the @c2dh.uni.lu website, link below. www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/arti...

An abstract "Algorithmic Power Influence on Collective Memory" (talk abstract) journals.phl.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/ar...

I'm working on a short new book that's sort of a sequel to my first book--it's about how we do history now. thrilled to be sharing some of my ideas @c2dh.uni.lu next week! stream link here, 9:30am for east coast folks

When the French Government is using AI to celebrate the Journée nationale de la Résistance. www.instagram.com/reel/DKJ0amr... With a soldier from the Wehrmacht celebrating Libération. (via @vonyaourt.bsky.social @marmelade.bsky.social de.bsky.social‬ and @vincentgranier.bsky.social

The Auschwitz Memorial condemns the use of generative AI to fabricate Holocaust victim images (published with reworded texts from Auschwitz Memorial). www.facebook.com/auschwitzmem...

Is Generative AI making the Dark Forest of the Internet even darker? Following the *Dark Forest Theory of the Internet* (ystrickler.medium.com/the-dark-for... by Y. Strickler), @maggieappleton.com.web.brid.gy explores how Gen AI is making it darker (maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest) #ai

📢 New Call for Papers: "AI & History"✨ How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist... #DigitalHistory #AI #CFP

Avec un article sur IA et histoire, citant -merci!- notre numéro spécial sur IA et mémoire collective brill.com/view/journal... (Sarah Gensburger & Frédéric Clavert) et "L’histoire au temps des algorithmes" (20 & 21 - Caroline Muller et Frédéric Clavert) shs.cairn.info/revue-vingt-...)