As world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, concern over "AI slop" rewriting history
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As the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, experts warned that a flood of "AI slop" is threatening efforts to preserve the memory of Nazi crimes and the millions of Jewish people killed during World War II. In:
As the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, experts warned that a flood of "AI slop" is threatening efforts to preserve the memory of Nazi crimes and the millions of Jewish people killed during World War II.
Images seen by the AFP news agency include an emaciated and apparently blind man standing in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp Flossenbuerg, and a viral image of a little girl with curly hair on a tricycle falsely presented as a 13-year-old Berliner who died at the Auschwitz extermination camp.
Such content — whether produced as clickbait for commercial gain or for political motives — has proliferated over the past year, distorting the history of Nazi Germany's murder of six million European Jews during World War II.
Early examples emerged in the spring of 2025, but by the end of the year, "AI slop" on the subject "was being shown very frequently," historian Iris Groschek told AFP.
On some sites, examples of such content were being posted once per minute, said Groschek, who works at Holocaust memorial sites in Hamburg, including the Neuengamme concentration camp.
