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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 patron privacy https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/tech-crash-course-data-information-privacy/ 

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