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by Applejinx 536 days ago
Which becomes a real gotcha when it turns out to be hallucinated 'content' misleading people into following their assumptions on what regular people thought and felt and experienced thousands of years ago.

What we call AI does have superhuman powers but they are not powers of insight, they are powers of generalization. AI is more capable than a human is of homogenizing experience down to what a current snapshot of 'human thought' would be, because it's by definition PEOPLE rather than 'person'. The effort to invoke a specific perspective from it (that seems ubiquitous) sees AI at its worst. This idea that you could use it to correctly extract a specific perspective from the long dead, is wildly, wildly misguided.