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AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld)
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In May of last year, a warning about AI came from somewhere unexpected: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Posting publicly on social media, the museum warned about a Facebook account using generative AI to create fake images of people who died in the Holocaust. The people in said images were sometimes real—with real names, birthplaces, and stories of deportation that the Auschwitz-Birkenau…