No smoke, no mirrors
The short answer to "is this AI?" is yes, the voices and the art are. Here's the longer answer, because we would rather tell you ourselves than leave you guessing.
The Truth Is Weirder started at home. My daughter loves graphic history novels, the kind that leave you wanting to know more, so we went looking for podcasts that did the same thing and were right for her age. That "hang on, is that actually true?" habit turned into the whole show.
We come up with the ideas and pick the myths. From there we use AI tools to help research each one, draft the script, create the characters Cass and Pip, and put the episode together. A person stays across all of it, reviewing the research against named primary sources and signing off before anything goes out. When historians don't agree, we say so on the show rather than pretend there's a tidy answer.
The voices and the art are AI, made under our direction. The history is real, traced to named sources, with a person reviewing it before it airs.
We keep one thing back: our names. There are young children in our family, and we would rather keep them out of public view. The AI characters are part of how we do that.
This is what using AI well looks like to us. Nothing dressed up as something it isn't, every source named, and a real person answerable for the facts. If that's not your cup of tea, we understand. We'd just rather be judged on the work than on the tools.
History is an argument, not a stone tablet. If you think we've got something wrong, if you can point us to a stronger source, or if you simply read the same evidence a different way, we want to hear it. A good challenge is the best part of the whole thing, and exactly the habit we're trying to pass on.
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