#alcibiades

[kebriones]

Epic comic photoshoot moment (showing the city to my baby 🥹)

[edwardscissorfeet]

sometimes i think about nicias at the sicilian expedition and i have to laugh. wdym u delayed leaving sicily because the moon was giving off bad vibes. dude your men are going to die.

[shortace]

Just on a whim, because I know that Alcibiades is one of the weirdest and funniest characters in ancient Greek history, I asked ChatGPT "What's the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did?"

ChatGPT came back with the details of something Alcibiades (henceforth referred to as 'Alci' so I don't have to keep typing it out) was accused of, but acquitted of.

When I pointed out that he had been acquitted and may not have actually done this thing, Chat GPT apologised and said, "yes, he was acquitted", and then went on to tell me that, nonetheless, the event was significant because it made Alci flee the city.

Alci did not flee the city, he was sent away on a military expedition, which was exactly what he'd wanted and asked for. When I pointed that out, ChatGPT apologised again for being wrong.

I asked again for weird things he might actually have done, and was told one version of a story I've heard before about how Alci stole some stuff from a friend. ChatGPT's version was different from what I'd heard, though, so I mentioned that, and only then did ChatGPT acknowledge that there were different versions of the story. As part of its apology and correction, ChatGPT said that it did not always have access to all information - but then proceeded to provide details of the version of the story I'd heard before, showing that it did, in fact, have access to that information.

I asked again, what is the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did? ChatGPT gave me an answer, which was a story I'd never heard before, so I asked for a source. ChatGPT told me it was in Plutarch's Lives, and I presumed it was in his Life of Alcibiades, so that's where I looked. When I said I couldn't find it there, ChatGPT told me, sorry for not being specific, it was actually in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. So I went and read Plutarch's Life of Nicias and couldn't find it.

So I told ChatGPT that I couldn't find the story in that book, could it please be more specific? What I was hoping for was a chapter or page number or something, I just presumed I'd missed it.

ChatGPT came back with "no, actually it's not in that book, it may be a later invention, there is no concrete evidence for this story."

TL;DR: ChatGPT cannot be trusted. Even when it does give you a source, it can be wrong. It has no capacity to evaluate the accuracy or likely accuracy of the information it gives you. It will present you with wrong or debatable information and give you absolutely no indication that it may not be correct, or that other versions or interpretations are possible.

[girlcatilina]

alcibiades

[scribl1ta]

Happy Greece legalizes same sex marriage day

[becauseitwasi]

insane man insane

[thoodleoo]

obsessed with this translation of a line from the wasps that replicates alcibiades' lisp. i need to see a post of alcibiades going "hewwo mr. socwates?" now

[nateconnolly]

Alcibiades, you absolutely don't have time to mope about not being in old man yaoi. The heads of the gods have been fucking mutilated.

[kebriones]

stupid hoplite boi i sketched in between comms

[master-of-the-stars]

I can never forget them

[laikaru]

Soldier Alkibiades sketch based on AC Odyssey

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Germán Hernández Amores (Spanish, 1823-1894) Socrates reprimanding Alcibiades in the house of a courtesan, 1857 Museo Nacional del Prado

[scribl1ta]

Alcibiades chiton look (^з^)-☆

[hexjulia]

why was he like this

[thoodleoo]

i can only hope that one day 1. somebody describes me as a legendary bisexual 2. it comes before any other accomplishment ive ever had