The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on Friday strongly condemned Facebook posts with AI-generated fictional images of victims of the German death camp for their historical distortions.
“The use of artificial intelligence to generate fictional images of Auschwitz victims … is not a tribute,” the museum posted on X. “It is a profound act of disrespect to the memory of those who suffered and were murdered in Auschwitz. It undermines the integrity of historical truth.”
The computer-generated inventions use real content including names, dates and other biographical facts that are paired with fabricated information.
“Fabricating faces with AI does not preserve memory,” the museum noted. “It reshapes it, distorts it, and risks turning tragedy into aestheticized fiction.”
Fictionalized images could encourage Holocaust denial, museum deputy spokesman Pawel Sawicki told AFP.
The museum appealed to page creators to immediately stop this practice, and it has connected with the U.S. tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook, regarding one such falsified page titled “90’s History.”
“The tragedy of Auschwitz does not need to be made more visual, more “emotional” or more “shareable.” It needs to be remembered truthfully,” the museum said.
More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz between 1940–1945, about one million of them Jews.
