AI reading burned Herculaneum texts (again)

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption

I suppose if here is any philosophy which can carry on being, well, philosophical, after being burned up by a volcano, then it would be Stoicism.

[Nick Harbud]

Better than a laundry list, I suppose.

Still, how do we know that what the AI has come up with bears any relationship to what might be on the page, rather than some demented hallucination it has dreamt up?