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Oh, how the mighty have fallen: TIME rolls out an AI-generated depiction of the American Revolution.
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JESUS H CHRIST WTF YOU WERE THINKING
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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You can watch scenes of it on youtube and it is horrible. There is nothing historical accurate about it, the "sets" looks cheap and anachronistic, in fact anachronism pervades it through and through. I randomly forwarded to a scene where what was apparently Franklin and Jefferson are sitting and drinking whiskey from modern glass tumblers, their customes looks like someone poorly attempted to disguise modern clothing as 18th century outfits. The "acting" is atrocious with weird facial expressions, characters looking different in different scenes and so on.
I have no idea why they would use AI for this, when it would probably have been cheaper, and just as historically convincing, to use randos from the street and just film them with their phone right there and then.
Why any professional would voluntarily sign their name to this slop is beyond me. The guy must really have been in need of some hard cash.
Just fyi, what you're seeing on youtube is the entire thing. It's a series of very short episodes meant to be published throughout the year.