Jonathan Laramy Wins WIBA Award for AI History Channel With 15 Million YouTube Views
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Updated · The Guardian · May 26
Jonathan Laramy Wins WIBA Award for AI History Channel With 15 Million YouTube Views
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 26
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32-year-old Jonathan Laramy took a WIBA award at Cannes on Friday for Chloe VS History, an AI-generated time-travel vlog channel with more than 610,000 Instagram followers and 15 million YouTube views.
Seedance 2.0 powers videos that place a recurring character in settings such as Tudor London, ancient Rome and the Titanic, part of Laramy's push to make history more visual and engaging for younger audiences.
4 million views on a 14-minute Titanic episode helped propel the channel, whose format has already been copied by accounts including Janella Through Time, Nova VS History and Esmetimetravels.
Laramy said the work still produces AI errors such as Roman figures wearing watches or sunglasses and sometimes draws "AI slop" criticism, even as response has been largely positive.
Oxford historian Adam Smith said the format could significantly improve history teaching and documentaries, comparing its popularizing role to Horrible Histories rather than a replacement for museums or academic scholarship.