Māori People and their claims to political sovereignty, redress and cultural revitalization…

OpenAI's Sora was prompted to create visual scenes from Aotearoa New Zealand's history, from the 1700s to the 1860s. The prompts were deliberately left open-ended to reveal the model's default visual assumptions rather than prescribe what should appear. The AI-generated images often depicted pre-colonial landscapes as empty wilderness, Captain Cook as a calm civilizer, and Māori as timeless, peripheral figures, recycling colonial stereotypes and biases.