AI-altered video clips of Adolf Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech at the beginning of World War II have recently gone viral. In the speech, Hitler proclaimed that the upcoming war would bring about the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” While Hitler did say this, the speech in the video clips was translated from German to English. The videos, which feature text that makes it clear the speech was an AI audio translation, have been viewed more than 15 million times, according to X.
X did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The video clips appear to have been taken from a video first posted to YouTube two months ago by an account called Time Unveiled, which has also posted AI-translated videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Joseph Stalin, and Hideki Tojo. In the Hitler video’s description section on YouTube, the creators said they used technology from voice-cloning startup ElevenLabs to generate the audio.