Fake AI history photos cloud the past

Other images on Midjourney purport to show the explosion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima in 1945, the invasion of Prague by Soviet-allied troops in 1968 and even a vision of the Roman Coliseum in ancient times. — Reuters

PARIS: A wave of touching photos showing great moments in time is fascinating amateur historians online. The problem? They are not real – and may be clouding our view of the past.

Widely shared on social media, the atmospheric black and white shots – a mother and her child starving in the Great Depression; an exhausted soldier in the Vietnam war – may look at first like real historic documents.