BBC reveals internet spammers that make profits from images ah Holocaust

The International Network of Spammers publishes AI-generated images of the Holocaust victims on Facebook, revealed the BBC investigation on “AI SLOP”.

Organizations dedicated to the preservation of the Holocaust say that the images leave survivors and families are upset.

They also criticized Meta Facebook maternal company, saying it allows users to turn the atrocity into a “emotional game”.

During World War II, there are only a few real photos from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

But in recent months, AI Spammers have posted fake images that are supposedly located from the camp, such as a prisoner who plays on a violin or lovers on the boundary of the fence – attracting tens of thousands of likes and stocks.

“We have someone who make up stories … For some strange emotional game that is happening in social media,” said Payel Saviki, a press secretary of Auschwitz in Poland.

“This is not a game. It is a real world, real suffering and real people we want and need to be honored.”

The BBC has found many of these images on the credentials of the content of content creators based in Pakistan, which closely cooperate on how to make money on Facebook. This is the Meta Gaming Meta Monetization Program (CM), “Only for inviting” a system that pays users for high -performance content and views.

One of the accounts named Abdul Maggi, specified as a habitat in Pakistan, are located screenshots, which have earned $ 20,000 according to social media monetization schemes, including Meta. Another post seems to show that the account is more than 1.2 billion about the contents for four months.

We could not self -check the profit of any creator.

Among the many Facebook reports from Abdul Mag, a few photos AI of the fictional victims of the Holocaust and fake stories that included a baby hiding under the boards or a child left on trains outside the concentration camp.

BBC analysis on the Internet account and dozens of other than this, it suggests that they place almost exclusively “AI SLOP”.

The term denotes images and text with low quality, which are usually made in large volumes and spam in social media.

Auschwitz became a popular topic for pages and groups. Some of the names such as “Eternal Tales” and “Refuge History” have placed more than 50 times a day.

In June, the Auschwitz Museum warned accounts such as these, stole their messages, process them through AI models and often twisting historical details or producing stories and victims. In a Facebook report, the museum said that these images were a “dangerous distortion” that “despises the victims and pursues their memory.”

Mr. Saviki said that the tsunami forged images undermine the mission of the Auschwitz Memorial to increase the Holocaust awareness.

“We have already started comments on our Facebook posts that” Oh, it’s a photo of AI generation, “he said.

Survivors and families also worry Halucaust Ai Slop, an organization that promotes Holocaust education and research.

“They don’t quite understand what they see,” said D -Robert Williams from the International Holocaust Memories.

He said that survivors in the Holocaust feel “a sense of sadness, it was allowed,” despite government and charitable investments in information companies.

“They feel that their efforts were not enough,” he said.

“It is very sad to consider because the last of those who survived will soon leave us.”

Meta does not intentionally urge users to post false stories, including the Holocaust, but its system is rewarding high -interaction messages. BBC also found AI Slop accounts based in India, Vietnam, Thailand and Nigeria.

To understand why these networks are massively producing specific types of content, the BBC talked to the Pakistani Phasal Rakhman, who is enrolled in a few monetization schemes in social media and says that this work has become its only source of income.

Although he says he himself does not create any pictures of the Holocaust and did not know what the word meant when he was originally asked, he works in the same Facebook groups as those who are doing.

Mr. Rahman said that a Facebook page of 300,000 followers could earn $ 1,000 a month if she had a “premium content” that served a higher cost from the UK, USA and Europe. According to him, Western views cost eight times more than Asia.

He said the story as a topic was a reliable Internet movement engine.

Other creators seem to agree. The BBC saw step -by -step training videos on how popular AI models can be used to create permanent fake images and text history.

In one of the video, the creator asked AI Chatbot to list the key historical events they could use as a basis for content creation, and received the Holocaust as one of his answers.

Other tips given by some creators include tips on how to cheat on the audience, having their page that represent themselves with other subjects to create an audience and get the right to the CM Meta program.

Facebook has a page transparency that allows users to track previous page titles. Using this, the BBC found many pages that posted Slop Holacaust Ai, which once became a number of different organizations, including official departments of firefighters in the US, commercial enterprises and US influences – all without their consent.

These pages, according to the creators’ public reports, can also be sold or rented to those who want to invade the Content Creator market.

BBC asked Meta about several profiles that placed AI with the Holocaust, and appeared to have been engaged in deceptive practices.

Several profiles and groups were removed, including the Auschwitz memorial in June.

The press -secretary of the technological giant said that these fake images did not violate its content policy, he investigated them and found that they violated their rules around them and trade on the pages.

“We have removed the pages and groups that shared with us and disabled the accounts behind them for violating our spam policy and invalid behavior,” they said.

Ah used in the past to mark the Holocaust and bring to life the history of true casualties, but Dr. Williams International Holocaust memories warns that there is a risk that it could contribute to the feeling that the Holocaust history is somehow produced.

“Any form of extreme manipulations is what we should shy away from,” he said.

Additional report Umer Draz Nangiana, BBC URDU