Name of Nazi executioner in horrific WWII photo revealed using AI after 80 years of searching

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Often associated with scams and deepfakery, AI is now being used for another, more noble purpose: unmasking history’s monsters. A German historian has utilized the omnipresent tech to glean the identity of a notorious Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph — over 80 years after it was taken. “The match, from everything I hear from the technical experts, is unusually high in terms of the percentage the algorithm throws out there,” German historian Jürgen Matthäus, the sleuth who solved