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An interesting article: AI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problem. I follow the author - Marina Amaral, who creates fascinating posts around historical black and white photos that she carefully colorizes.
It this post she write about the rise of AI-generated "vintage" photos that are "virtually indistinguishable from the real ones. They can mimic the grainy textures, the soft focus, and even the damages that I spend hours restoring and removing from the photographs that I work on."
She offers a number of examples. Here's a few:
As history teachers - we'll need to come to grips with this functionality as the technology becomes easier and more prevalent.
Here's two interesting TPS posts on the subject:
1. I've dabbled with using AI to alter historical photos. See: You can update "Migrant Mother." But Should You?
2. '"AI Imagery May Destroy History As We Know It" by 
Soline Holmes
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"What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance..." - Albert Brooks as Aaron Altman in the 1987 film Broadcast News.
Yes. And AI certainly is handy.
I have many concerns about AI, but it is coming, so we do indeed have to deal with it.
My greatest concern is that it's convenience will lure us to let it do our thinking for us. Already, many Americans have no idea how to read a map or otherwise navigate without their phones. That's AI. When students–and professionals–forget (or never learn) to think through problems, then collectively we will have become willingly less intelligent, less capable.
The chief tool of resistance in classrooms is inquiry. We must lean in to project-based learning where students have to come up with good questions, research them, analyze the data and information, and come up with meaningful, relevant conclusions and solutions.
Thanks for starting this discussion.
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