Someone sent me photos of their uncle’s 1923 Ford T-Bucket Roadster.  But in bright red.

Someone sent me photos of their uncle’s 1923 Ford T-Bucket Roadster.  But in bright red.

My Comment:

I tried to ask Microsoft CoPilot for original photos of this model from the 1920’s. My Dad would have seen these as they were still on the roads in his childhood and later. I might have seen the original models, but he certainly would have. But Copilot only served up ads for pimp car show, high priced makeovers. I am fairly certain all of them were painted black originally. If those are how the original wheels looked, I am shocked because I did not remember that sort of thing. My uncle had a 1957 T-Bird and he drove us fast at the airport one time. That is my entire experience of antique cars.

Search engines and their AIs are supposed to help in searching for knowledge. At least I think search engines should aim for “what really happened”, not try to shuffle you to current shows and sales and events.

Thank you for sharing this, but it is mostly outside my experience, and what I do remember is not anything like a red roadster. Maybe my lifetime photographic memory is starting to fade. Or even back then, we only got fragments of what was happening and nothing of the true variations in the experiences of others.

AIs and search engines, companies and every museums are giving highly distorted pictures of the past.

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation