President Macron’s government has been forced to withdraw an artificial intelligence-generated video celebrating the French Resistance after historians were outraged by errors including a German soldier celebrating the Allied liberation of Paris.
The government had published the video on its official Instagram and TikTok accounts in order to teach young people about the Resistance. However, the 27-second clip showed a soldier wearing a German helmet in a crowd of Parisians celebrating the end of Nazi occupation in 1944. Elsewhere in the crowd someone waved the flag of Japan, Germany’s wartime ally.
