Alarm in Germany over AI Holocaust imagery

Germany's government and Holocaust memorial institutions have demanded social media platforms stop the spread of fake images which they say are distorting and trivialising history.



Concentration camp memorial sites and documentation centres expressed deep concern in a letter this week at a tide of so-called AI Slop, or falsified images, around the Nazis' killing of more than six million Jews during World War Two.



Images included highly emotionalized illustrations of invented incidents such as meetings of concentration camp inmates and their liberators or children behind barbed wire.



"AI-generated content distorts history by trivialising and kitschification," said the organizations' January 13 letter, adding that such images helped fuel mistrust among users of authentic historical documents.



Germany's state minister for culture and media Wolfram Weimer said he supported efforts by the memorial institutions for AI-generated imagery to be clearly marked and, where necessary, removed.