All of this would be great grist for discussions—conceptions of narrative and its pull in the way we compose history, the impossibility of “filling in gaps” in the historical record—if this LLM AI stuff wasn’t hegemonic and destroying both our imaginative and physical worlds
Adam Bursi
For those who need to understand: archiving is not inventing history or “filling in gaps,” but assessing the actual imperfect data we possess. We don’t need to make up history. That’s what fiction is for. 🤬
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
