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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Priya Bharadia

‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history

AI-generated vloggers ChloeVSHistory (left, looking distraught and wearing a shawl while in a lifeboat from HMS Titanic) and NovaVSHistory (right, wearing a stars'n'stripes vest top while 'travelling back' to the birth of America
AI-generated vloggers like Chloe VS History (left) and Nova VS History are, their creators say, ‘taking an already-proven format and applying it to history’ Composite: YouTube/@ChloeVSHistory; YouTube/NovaVSHistoryVlog

“I have just arrived in Tudor London, 1536,” a young woman in a green puffer jacket tells the camera. “I’m going to check in at my room in the inn, get into the market. Then, later I am meeting the actual king – yep, Henry VIII – in person.”

On YouTube and other social platforms, users are flocking to watch AI-generated “history influencers”, characters that vlog their travels to historical settings.

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