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Scarlet and Dorothea discuss critical confabulations in archives and the implications of AI in historical contexts.

We’re talking about that bad article on critical confabulations in archives. We talk about history as a process, the archive, gaps in our knowledge, language as a conveyor of reality, and The Watermelon Woman. Media mentioned THE ARTICLE: Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good? https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722 Guillaume Cabanac, “How a Tortured Conference Becomes a Series: An Analysis of Conference Manipulations” IEEE Xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11363742 Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work, TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/research-repository-arxiv-will-ban-authors-for-a-year-if-they-let-ai-do-all-the-work/ The Watermelon Woman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman Keith Haring Unfinished Painting: https://mymodernmet.com/artificial-intelligence-finishes-keith-harings-unfinished-painting/ Patrick Wyman, Lost Worlds https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lost-worlds-patrick-wyman?variant=43084775817250 Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America, Patrice McSherry https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/predatory-states-9780742568709/ Dorothea series on…

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