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TikTok creators use AI to rewrite history

A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power.

The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history which never happened: An industrial revolution set off the militarization of India. London fell to the Indian Armada, and wealthy Indian families settled in Great Britain.

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-tiktok-creators-rewrite-history/