LONDON: Brygida, a Polish woman who recently moved to London, headed to Buckingham Palace on Friday after seeing online posts of a traditional Christmas market outside the gates with wooden stalls and twinkling lights.
But when she got there, there was no sign of a market outside the royal residence, and she realized the fake images were generated using artificial intelligence.
Wrapped in a white faux-fur coat on a crisp cold day, Brygida, a 25-year-old bankworker, told AFP that “we went there thinking it was real.”
“I thought I would see it for the first time in history. I thought I was lucky, but, yeah, we were really sad when we saw that there isn’t anything like that.”
Several content creators posted AI-generated images of the non-existent Christmas market, promising “a royal Christmas experience like never before.”
