Category:The queer history of Bagoas the Younger تصنيف:التاريخ الغريب لباغواس الأصغر

As part of the QW2023 conference, this set of AI created artistic postcards has been published to illustrate "The queer history of Bagoas the Younger". Produced along with descriptive prose in iambic pentameter created by AI. Apart from starting prompts, there is only weak influence of human choice of variations, so this also helps as a case study of the biases built in to the current versions of public AI tools.

Content warning! References to being enslaved and the role of eunuchs. However there are no images of excessive violence or “gore”.

Bagoas is most famous for being the slave and lover of Alexander the Great and as a eunuch lover has been reframed in modern LGBTQ and artistic contexts as a historical transgender or non-binary figure.

Images created by Midjourney version 5 AI in mostly “Caravaggio” style. Text created by Google Bard version 1 AI in mostly iambic pentameter style. Neither Midjourney, nor Google retain any copyright in these images or texts.

Untouched by human creativity. Prompt engineering by Anonymous. Warning — this AI created framing of the history of Alexander the Great and the Bagoas the Younger has little, and sometimes no connection to published research.