Each November, we’re tasked with remembrance.

We’re called on to remember the sacrifices made by the thousands killed during wars in which Canadians have fought: People such as my father (India and Burma, 1944-45) or Uncle George (killed with the RAF, 1942), or my grandfather (gassed at the Somme, served 1916-18, lived but never really able to work again.)

As the generations that served in some of those defining conflicts leave us, remembrance becomes a more challenging task — one that risks being further complicated by a rising tide of AI-generated garbage.

I ran into this by accident after seeing a YouTube video about German prisoners of war who worked on American farms. It focused heavily on Iowa, where the former PoW camp at Algona is now a museum preserving these memories .

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