Holocaust AI fakes spark alarm

LONDON, July 14 (AFP): 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.
Content creators, often based in South Asia, are churning out such posts for money, targeting Westerners' emotional reactions to the Holocaust, in which six million Jewish people died, researchers told AFP.
Critics say that such AI-generated images, text and videos are offensive and contribute to Holocaust distortion by conjuring up a "fantasy-land Auschwitz".
The Auschwitz museum sounded the alarm over the trend.
"We're dealing with the creation of a false reality-because it is falsifying images... falsifying history," museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki told AFP.