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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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In Early June, the Auschwitz Memorial posted a warning about AI-generated Holocaust victims flooding Facebook. BBC Trending has since tracked several accounts pushing these false narratives and other pages posting so-called ‘AI slop’. The investigation has uncovered how these “digital creators” in Pakistan are just one part of a global economy of deception and emotional manipulation exploiting Meta payment models to profit from dubious content.
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| 0:00.0 | It was an emotional response. It wasn't until I started reading some of the comments |
| 0:13.0 | that I did question it. It wasn't a, this could be false, this is false, this is fake news, |
| 0:20.5 | this is AI driven, it wasn't like that because it was beautifully written. |
| 0:26.2 | In early June, Jane B. from the south of England commented on a Facebook photo and post about a young girl called Miriam Gold, who died in Auschwitz, the most notorious Nazi concentration camp. |
| 0:38.7 | The picture is black and white and shows a dark-haired girl in a colored jumper and apron, |
| 0:44.2 | knitting while looking into the camera. |
| 0:47.4 | What Chaine didn't know then was this Miriam, the post described, never existed. |
| 0:53.2 | There were several Miriam Golds who were killed in the Holocaust, |
| 0:56.5 | but from what we could find, the one described in the post, wasn't one of them. |
| 1:02.2 | During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany systematically murdered six million Jews. |
| 1:07.4 | Millions of others were killed and persecuted on the grounds of ethnicity and race. |
| 1:12.2 | The photo and story we were looking at, however, were created using AI, |
| 1:17.1 | drawing on the well-documented histories of Holocaust victims. |
| 1:21.0 | The post seemed very real for Chained, though. |
| 1:24.1 | In fact, she was so moved by it, she, like 1,500 other people, commented. |
| 1:29.7 | Part of her comment reads, |
| 1:31.5 | I have met in the past some of the Holocaust survivors. |
| 1:35.0 | They were truly amazing, and my uncle was part of the convoy that went into Auschwitz to free them. |
| 1:41.5 | He told me things later in his life of what he saw, man's inhumanity and cruelty, |
| 1:47.5 | to its fellow mankind. My family were all part as a fight against all of this, |
| 1:52.5 | so I do understand. There were so many wrongs in the world. |
| 1:57.0 | What Jane had come across is commonly known as AI Slop, |
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