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.

The hot spot seemed the perfect place for Yuletide-loving royalists. But, as with the Eiffel Tower in Beijing and some of the most picturesque windmills in the Netherlands, there…

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…