The White House recently commissioned a new history exhibit in Washington, D.C. created by the far-right “education” group PragerU. The exhibit features 82 paintings and 40 AI videos, presenting a rather distorted view of America’s founding.
The AI-generated videos even include fake quotes from the founding fathers, including one that seems like a joke. But the folks at PragerU are serious about their mission, even if the intention is to own the libs.
What kind of quotes are we talking about? The video of an AI-generated John Adams, which is available online at Prager U’s website, shows the second president saying, “facts do not care about our feelings.” That’s a phrase that became popularized in the 2010s by far-right influencers like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk.
Historically, White House exhibits haven’t included such obvious attempts at trolling.
It should be noted that the closed captioning reads “your feelings” rather than “our feelings,” the latter being how it’s spoken by the AI John Adams for whatever reason. But that’s precisely the kind of attention to detail you’d expect from PragerU.
The new exhibit is dubbed the Founders Museum and was created for the lead-up to the semiquincentennial celebration (250th anniversary) that will be happening in 2026. PragerU created the exhibit with the White House Task Force 250, which is overseeing the semiquincentennial activities, according to NPR.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, who has said she’s trying to put herself out of a job by shutting down the Department of Education, is featured on PragerU’s website in a promotional video insisting that the new exhibit’s “patriotic education does not mean propaganda.” McMahon infamously referred to AI as “A1” (like the steak sauce) at a recent speaking engagement.
The PragerU videos are also filled with the kind of AI-generated distortions and anomalies that we’ve come to expect. Some of the videos include figures with either too many or too few fingers. Generative AI tools still struggle with human hands, creating alien-like figures that seem to haunt the PragerU creations, as you can see below in a screenshot from the John Adams video.
PragerU is notorious for creating inaccurate learning materials that sanitize history. One video that went viral in recent years shows Christopher Columbus scolding children for judging him about slavery. “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don’t see the problem,” the animated Columbus says.
It’s no surprise that PragerU would create ridiculous nonsense. The shocking part is that their version of history is being legitimized by the U.S. government. The new videos also inject plenty of mentions of God, which is certainly a choice. The founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, often talks about spreading “Judeo-Christian values.”
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