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Philip Oltermann
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Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
After I raised this in an interview with the producers, Channel 4 got in touch to say the images would be properly labelled in the cut that goes out on Saturday,
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In the edits of the programme that went out to press, there is a disclaimer at the start, but the five AI images were not individually labelled, even though they could pass as genuine photographs, like this one
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Arguments around genetic determinism aside, I don't understand why the programme's makers decided to undermine their own scientific credibility by using AI-generated images depicting scenes from Hitler's youth.
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It‘s unclear to me how the “in Tel Aviv” bit here is crucial - am I missing something? Leaving it in would have also created some confusion since the Knesset is in Jerusalem…
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My point isn’t who owned the anti-Tesla protests, though, but that Musk’s claim that the AfD are pro-deregulation should be completely at odds with his own experience
December 31, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Thank you, Kasia.
September 2, 2024 at 5:28 AM