Holocaust AI Fakes Spark Alarm
POLAND, JUL 14 – Researchers say AI-generated fake Holocaust photos on Facebook exploit emotional responses and generate income through content monetization, raising concerns of historical distortion.
- At the Auschwitz-Birkenau site, museum officials observed AI-generated Holocaust content in May, with Pawel Sawicki stating the posts are fabricated victim stories.
- Content creators in South Asia exploit Facebook’s monetisation to circulate fake victim narratives, researchers told AFP.
- According to Israel’s Yad Vashem remembrance centre, the portrayed Hannelore Kaufmann actually lived in western Germany and died in Sobibor, not Auschwitz.
- Despite complaints, Facebook owner Meta has taken no action, Pawel Sawicki said, and the platform’s policy permits the content.
- Pawel Sawicki warned `we’re dealing with the creation of a false reality`, adding concerns about falsifying images and history, AFP reported.
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‘Incredibly offensive’: Holocaust AI fakes spark alarm
The Facebook post shows a photo of a pretty curly-haired girl on a tricycle and says she is Hannelore Kaufmann, 13-year-old from Berlin who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. But there is no such Holocaust victim and the photo is not real, but generated by AI.
Holocaust AI fakes spark alarm
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