Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/04/many-of-dead-sea-scrolls-may-be-older-that-thought-experts-say

[Imperial Dave]

Maybe the it was the alive sea at that time....?

[stevenneate]

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185[/url

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-05/dead-sea-scrolls-ai-dating-palaeography/105374410

[Imperial Dave]

What about chatgpt....I would have asked it rather than messing about with intricate science stuff

 

[Cantabrigian]

I've only read the Guardian article, but it doesn't fill me with a desire to go further.  This sounds like an incredibly small data set to train an AI model.

And if they checked the outputs by asking experts for their opinion, why not just ask the experts in the first place?

[Nick Harbud]

Possibly because the experts charge at an horrendous hourly rate for their opinion, whereas the AI simply rips off everyone else's work for nothing...

...or just makes things up out of its imagination.  Then you need to pay the expert a small fortune to tell you where it is telling fibs.   

[Imperial Dave]

Maybe its because our brains are too highly trained...