While artificial intelligence or AI is commonly used to produce trivial or deepfake content, it was used by a German historian to identify a Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph taken more than 80 years ago.
“The match, from everything I hear from the technical experts, is unusually high in terms of the percentage the algorithm throws out there,” Jürgen Matthäus, who is based in the United States, told The Guardian.
Widely known as “The Last Jew of Vinnitsa,” the photo shows an SS soldier aiming a pistol at the head of a Jewish man who is kneeling on the edge of a mass grave in Ukraine. The gunman, who is wearing glasses, is being observed by a line of expressionless SS soldiers and officers behind him.
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