Deep nostalgia AI brings old photos to life and it’s creeping people out

A new artificial intelligence tool that transforms still images into moving video with uncanny realism has been branded “creepy” by online users.

The Deep Nostalgia AI was developed by genealogy service MyHeritage to allow people to bring the past back to life, however the deepfake technology has also raised questions about privacy and security.

MyHeritage describes its cutting edge tool as a way to “give family history a fresh new perspective by producing a realistic depiction of how a person could have moved and looked” if they were captured on video.

“The result is a short, high-quality video animation of an individual face that can smile, blink, and move.”