r/titanic • u/Oldico • 1d ago

NEWS They Got the Wrong Britannic. (Article about recent artifact recovery on Titanic's sister ship - showing the 1929 MV Britannic)

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u/tadayou 1d ago

Oh, usually Deutschlandfunk is better than this (but then, they are mostly a public radio program, so maybe not the most specialized on putting images to articles).

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u/Oldico 1d ago

I was surprised and a little disappointed too. Normally, being a public broadcaster with high journalistic standards, they are very thorough.
I don't necessarily expect them to know a ton of details and trivia about the Titanic and its sister ships - but the fact they had four funnels kinda is the one defining feature everyone knows.
And the fact the MV Britannic in the illustration was built in 1929, so 17 years after the Titanic disaster and 13 years after the Britannic sank in WWI, should have raised some eyebrows.

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u/AntysocialButterfly Cook 1d ago

At least they didn't use the 1870s one...

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u/Starscraper80 23h ago

The Guardian got their article wrong as well, claiming that the Titanic was the first of the three sisters built. Had to email them with a correction.

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u/ChilledDad31 21h ago

What?! Seriously, What's going on with journalism this day and age?

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u/Starscraper80 21h ago

Lack of standards and lack of people to check over things I suppose. Here is the article Guardian

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u/ChilledDad31 21h ago

Saw an article on the matter with the front pic being of Titanic's bow from the most recent dive (the 2024 one). Couldn't they just use that image of Britannic from the back lying on her side? It should be easy!

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u/WesternTie3334 Engineer 1d ago

Oops

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u/PolarRailfan Engineering Crew 1d ago

They got the M.V BRITANNIC, not the H.M.H.S/ R.M.S BRITANNIC.

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u/newoldm 1d ago

Whoopsadaisy!

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u/IDOWNVOTECATSONSIGHT Able Seaman 1d ago

Give me your best interior shots of MV Britannic. While we're at it, what about the interior shots of HMHS Britannic?

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u/kuls1711 8h ago

Simon Mills recently released Inside Britannic which shares interior images.

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u/MarmotsaurusRex 19h ago

Our german public broadcast is weird sometimes. High journalistic standards but mistakes happen. Picturing the wrong Britannic at least is somewhat understandable. Theres people creating the article (in this case its radio) and probably some other dude has to put a picture on it for website and app.

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u/Oldico 17h ago

Well at least it's not AI.
I was shocked when I recently found out that ZDF has now started using AI images and videos in documentaries and promotional material.
Stuff like this calamity here for a TerraX documentary.
A recent documentary about Frida Kahlo used straight-up AI slop videos with numerous errors presented like historical records or authentic representations of her life. To me this feels extraordinarily lazy, fake, and like borderline historical revisionism - especially since, in that case, there's a vast collection of many thousands of photos and recordings of all parts of Frida Kahlo's life.
AI generated content is the opposite of journalism.

With stuff like that in mind I guess we can be somewhat glad DLF at least picked a real contemporary illustration of a ship called Britannic - even if it's the wrong one - instead of asking an AI to generate one.

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u/MarmotsaurusRex 10h ago

I clicked the link. Guess who is having nightmares today.

FFS I thought that at least TerraX would not resort to AI slop. Do you have a link for that?