The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims

利用人工智能大屠杀受害者牟利的Facebook骗子

The Documentary Podcast

2025-08-27

21 分钟
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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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  • It was an emotional response.

  • It wasn't until I started reading some of the comments that I did question it.

  • It wasn't, this could be false, this is false, this is fake news, this is AI driven.

  • It wasn't like that because it was beautifully written.

  • In early June, Jane Bee 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.

  • The picture is black and white and shows a dark-haired girl in a colored jumper and apron,

  • knitting while looking into the camera.

  • What Chain didn't know then was this Miriam, the post described, never existed.

  • There were several Miriam Golds who were killed in the Holocaust,

  • but from what we could find, The one described in the post wasn't one of them.

  • During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany systematically murdered 6 million Jews.

  • Millions of others were killed and persecuted on the grounds of ethnicity and race.

  • The photo and story we were looking at, however,

  • were created using AI, drawing on the well-documented histories of Holocaust victims.

  • The post seemed very real for Jane, though.

  • In fact, she was so moved by it, she, like 1,500 other people, commented.

  • Part of her comment reads, What Jane had come across is commonly known as AI slop,

  • a type of post typically of an AI-generated photo and text that is flooding social media platforms.