AI fakes muddy history waters
The Citizen|October 19, 2024
Paris – A wave of touching photos showing great moments in time is fascinating amateur historians online. The problem? They are not real and may be clouding our view of the past.

Widely shared on social media, the atmospheric black and white shots - a mother and her child starving in the Great Depression; an exhausted soldier in the Vietnam war - may look at first like real historic documents.

But they were created by artificial intelligence and researchers fear they are muddying the waters of real history.

“AI has caused a tsunami of fake history, especially images,” said Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, a Dutch historian who debunks false claims online.

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