**15 widely accepted claims about Bulgarian history and 15 invented by artificial intelligence. Can you tell them apart? Which is historical fact and which is nonsense?
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Today, more than ever, we argue about our past. We seek out the great historical moments that make us proud, but we are just as easily swept away by invented history.
Can we tell historical facts from fabrications? Let's find out together. Here are 15 claims about Bulgarian history generated by ChatGPT (and checked by a historian), and 15 that the algorithm made up when asked to let its imagination run free.
This quiz opens the history series on Digital Stories. We will talk with the historian Alexander Moshev about the big clichés online and gather the lessons from some curious forgeries floating around the web. We will give the floor to the writers Viktoria Beshliyska and Zachary Karabashliev, and to the history teacher and quiz record holder Boris Rusev. In the meantime, it's your turn—can you tell the facts from the fiction?
How well do we know our own history? Let's find out together, and at the end we will sum up the results.
You can also enter a prize draw—a selection of books and T-shirts with the Digital Stories logo. Answers are collected until November 17, and the results will be out on the 22nd.
Heartfelt thanks for every response and every share!
