# AI vs. Historian

**URL:** <https://www.twit.community/t/ai-vs-historian/17725>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 8, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/ai-vs-historian/17725 "2024-12-08T07:22:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/ai-vs-historian/17725/1 "2024-12-08T07:22:27Z")

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I regularly watch History Hit and love Dr. Eleanor Janega’s videos, where she covers middle ages history, generally. She is really funny and does a great job bringing history to life.

This time, the HH team produced a bunch of “historical” AI images and she had to guess what they were of and rate them on accuracy. Absolutely hilarious.

I managed to guess most of the scenes they were trying to show, even if, for me as a layman, I could see they were wildly inaccurate. I wonder if my “advantage” is that I know history, but haven’t studied thousands of images that colour how I look at the scenes, looking first for the big clues, then looking at the accuracy.

I got Joan of Arc before she did, but my initial thought was a witch burning, but then it was not a “significant” enough event for a single image, so quickly guessed Joan of Arc.

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/twit/original/3X/a/4/a4e576a634ce6bd2be94b105df373466c6aedc7f.jpeg "Medieval Historian Versus AI") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmn55r0zdmE)

Edit: Thanks Paul, I forgot to categorise the post.