# Citations — Ground Rules — Historical Virtual Humans Companion to [[Ground Rules — Historical Virtual Humans]]. IDs in parentheses (`S…`, `web:…`) match the research bibliographies in this vault. Use those notes for the full annotated list. ## Rule 1 — Say what it is - Jumbo Mana / Christophe Renaudineau: “We are able to bring these characters to life, but we are not trying to rebirth them.” Interviewed in coverage of *Bonjour Vincent* at Musée d’Orsay. [web:247] [web:248] [web:251] - Musée d’Orsay official page, *Hello Vincent* / *Bonjour Vincent*: visitor-facing description of the generative encounter as an addendum to a real exhibition, not a resurrection. [web:242] [[S242]] - Agnès Abastado (Orsay digital): internal year-long debate on “at what point this van Gogh was the real van Gogh.” [web:248] - Glenn Beck / The Torch, “What George AI Is and Is Not”: “librarian,” not a resurrection; closed corpus. Useful as a *claim* to test against Rule 1, not as a model of labeling. [[S105]] ## Rule 2 — Bind the mind to sources - Dr Wouter van der Veen on feeding Van Gogh’s correspondence so the system does not “spit back a Wikipedia page.” France Culture / Orsay reporting. [web:243] - Musée d’Orsay: corpus of “some 900 letters.” [web:242] - Forbes (Leslie Katz, 14 Dec 2023): “more than 800 letters.” [[S134]] - *Speaking with the Past*: Joseph Lister RAG character — method paper on accuracy, authenticity, reliability of an LLM historical figure. *Heritage* 8(9), 2025. [[S120]] - The Torch / George AI “electric fence” metaphor and isolated-server claim. [[S107]] [[S111]] ## Rule 3 — Prefer retrieval when the person could still speak - USC Shoah Foundation, Dimensions in Testimony project page. [[S172]] [web:231] - Wikipedia, *Dimensions in Testimony*: five-day shoot; same clothes; rest pose; **footage not animated, edited, or manipulated** so it remains a primary source. [[S175]] [web:233] - Traum et al., “New Dimensions in Testimony.” [[S178]] - StoryFile / Conversa: retrieval-based matching of pre-recorded clips; not generative paraphrase. [web:236] [web:237] - Heather Maio-Smith on talking to the individual, not an avatar. [web:239] - Tablet Magazine feature on DiT method, cost, and Eva pairing. [[S173]] ## Rule 4 — Always drop character - Colorado Humanities, *Chautauqua Living History*: monologue in character → questions in character → scholar steps out of character. [web:272] - History Comes Alive / Greenville Chautauqua: same three-beat clock. [web:274] - Ohio Chautauqua / Kentucky Chautauqua program descriptions. [web:273] [web:275] - Voices From the Earth Chautauqua learning outcomes. [web:280] ## Rule 5 — Label the counterfactual - Historic Metahumans poster (Hata et al., ASOR): multi-figure pipeline; family permission for Biran. [[S121]] - Digital Einstein, ETH Zurich / Animatico: authored dialogue tree later mixed with generative models — a warning case for unlabeled anachronism. [[S142]] [[S145]] - ENGAGE XR School of AI Historical Figures: many characters, thin documentary spine per figure. [[S116]] ## Rule 6 — Do not flatten - (A)I Cannot See Them, Open Library of Humanities: coins “histobot”; failed Hedy Lamarr prototype; cites Bonjour Vincent and Ask Dalí. [[S117]] - Smithsonian / ADC Awards on *Dalí Lives*: actor body, curator-checked lines, deepfake face — scripted, not open generation. [[S182]] [[S186]] - NHA, “The Real Women of Petticoat Row”: correction of a flattening myth. [web:302] [[S291]] - Absalom Boston / New Guinea / African Meeting House — NHA “Notable Black Nantucketers.” [web:292] ## Rule 7 — Hard-question protocol - Orsay / international press: most-asked *Bonjour Vincent* question was why Van Gogh killed himself; hundreds of visitors; human steering toward resilience; remaining ML errors. [web:247] [web:250] [web:251] - Fatma Chelly / Michaël Friess: “AI can say incorrect things. The human is there to provision the data.” [web:245] - Leeds Castle Eleanor of Castile: face not AI-generated; curatorial journey *before* conversation; multilingual. [[S126]] ## Rule 8 — Consent ≠ public domain - U.S. post-mortem right of publicity survey (CA 70 yrs, NY 40, IN 100, TN potentially perpetual if exploited). [web:252] [web:254] [web:258] - New York digital-replica statute: exemptions for parody, commentary, documentary, historical or biographical works. [web:254] - Hebrew University v. GM commentary on Einstein likeness vs. photograph copyright. [web:257] - Aquinnah Cultural Center / Mashpee Wampanoag: living nations; Nantucket has no surviving Wampanoag community. [web:333] [web:336] - Frances Karttunen / NHA, *The Other Islanders*: Abram Quary, Dorcas Honorable, and the “last Indian” framing as an archive problem. [web:336] - Historic Metahumans: family permission for Biran. [[S121]] ## Rule 9 — Credit labor - Phebe Mitchell Kendall, *Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals* (1896); Henry Albers ed. (2001). [web:313] [web:319] - Wouter van der Veen credited as Van Gogh specialist on *Hello Vincent*. [web:242] - *Spirits Within Us* (2026) credits: Boardman, Finger, Tyler, White, Philbrick, NHA manuscripts, Theater Workshop of Nantucket. [web:290] ## Rule 10 — Design for the room - Musée d’Orsay placement of Vincent at the **exit** of the painting exhibition. [web:242] - Lincoln Presidential Library: AR Lincoln + prior *Ghosts of the Library* Holavision. [[S210]] [[S212]] - Hello History / Humy.ai classroom traction (downloads, teachers) — different product, same room problem. [[S191]] - MetaHuman 5.6–5.8 platform notes for kiosk / mobile LOD. [web:262] [web:266] ## Rule 11 — Lock the afterlife - Jumbo Mana afterlife: Orsay → Auvers → announced Alexa skill; Rimbaud and Schweitzer follow-ons. [web:223] [web:247] - StoryFile consumer vs enterprise capture grades. [web:232] [web:237] - Soul Machines receivership (Feb 2026) as a caution on unit economics and who inherits a digital human. See [[Citations — Digital Humans]] ## Rule 12 — Refuse broken product shapes - BASE Hologram / Maria Callas tour: reconstructed performance, mixed reviews, estate/likeness spectacle. [[S202]] [[S203]] [[S206]] - Hello History library of 1,000+ figures: demand without documentary spine. [[S124]] [[S191]] - George AI interview coverage as a warning on feeding “today’s conditions” back into a closed founding-era corpus. [[S106]] [[S107]] ## Cross-references in this vault - [[Ground Rules — Historical Virtual Humans]] — primary - [[Specification — Full-Body Historical Virtual Human]] - [[Case Study — Jumbo Mana Bonjour Vincent]] - [[Case Study — Dimensions in Testimony and StoryFile]] - [[Citations — Historical Virtual Characters]] — `S105`–`S229` - [[Citations — Digital Humans]] — `web:0`–`web:104` - [[Nantucket Historical Figures — Opportunities]] - [[Citations — Nantucket Historical Figures — Opportunities]]