Deconstructing Dutch Colonial Myths in Brazil
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MastaBabaDECONSTRUCTING
DUTCH COLONIAL
MYTHS IN BRAZIL
USING RICH MODERN TECHNOLOGIES
Babak Fakhamzadeh
December 2025
Once upon a time in Olinda…
BULLSH*T!
100 short location based podcasts
3 languages
5 continents
Talented multilingual team Augmented by ‘AI’
Emerson Saboia Translations
Journalist, screenwriter, podcaster Automated (initial) translations, followed by manual editing, starting
with DeepL, ChatGPT or Google Translate.
Illustrations
Anderson F. R. Mendes Story illustrations, paintings in the style of Frans Post, through
Researcher, PHD candidate Midjourney.
Audio production
Carol Monteiro E Around 10% of audio through ElevenLabs.
Co-founder of MZ Conteúdo, university professor
Research and sca olding
For around 15% of the stories, directing ChatGPT to produce original
research and to extract details from (mostly) academic material.
Babak Fakhamzadeh
Co-founder of WLC, helps to get you lost
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Findings
Translations
Deepl and ChatGPT outperform Google Translate. Superb for an initial
translation, but not good enough to pass of as a professionally translated
text.
Illustrations
Incredible for creative illustrative interpretations.
Audio production
More than ‘good enough’, but, when inspected closely, in the ‘uncanny
valley’.
Research and sca olding
’Trust but verify’. Great for uncovering small details, but hallucinating,
requiring constant veri ication. Excellent for sca olding a text.
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But!
Massively underpriced
OpenAI lost 12 billion USD in Q32024.
Blatant copyright theft
Facebook trained AI on pirated material.
Excessive energy use
Generating an image uses as much energy as charging a phone.
Big Tech builds an economy for the few, not
the many
- Concentration of power
- Wage collapse
- Unforgiving data extraction
- Hidden bias, potential uncontrollable fraud
- Epistemic collapse (what is true?) and information chaos
- Erosion of human creativity and agency
- Outsourcing of death and destruction
- Accelerated inequality
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