Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, or imagine that you wake up on a sunny morning in Pompeii hours for destruction.
That is the experience that hundreds of thousands of people who follow hugely popular Tiktok accounts are sold those post-generated videos with a history of history are sold.
Two of the most popular accounts, 'Time Traveler POV' and 'POV Lab', have nearly a million followers between them and have placed dozens of videos.
But with many of their clips that go viral, historians have expressed the fear that important inaccuracies in the portraits can mislead social media users.
A video posted on the Time Traveler POV account gives viewers a 'tour' of an Allied Geul in 1917, with scenes such as the 'Observation Post' and a soldier who reads 'letters from my wife'.
But the respected military historian Robin Schaefer told MailOnline that it has no 'shred of accuracy', making the uniforms 'absurd'.
Another clip with people who live in Pompeii on the day the Roman city was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79ad has also proved controversial.
Historian and archaeologist Dr. Hannah Platts pointed to errors, ranging from the wrong type of bread magazines and wine glasses to the display of the eruption itself.
A clip generated by AI that reflects life during the Black Death in 1351. The video is equipped with an account time traveler POV with a history theme on Tik Tok. At one point a woman with a bloody face only stretches her arms for help while she is standing in a muddy -filled street
She said: 'I think we have an important responsibility with AI. Only because history is in the past does not mean that we can roughly drive over it. '
Their comments come after colleague historian Jo Hedwig Teugisse, known online as the fake history hunter, hit another account and placed AI videos as 'nonsense' and 'waste'.
The expert comments come in the midst of a Daily Mail campaign to protect the creative industries of Great -Britain against the threat of AI.
Senior figures in the music, media and film industry have warned about the potentially devastating impact of the Labor plans to enable large technology companies to ignore the rules for copyright when they train their artificial intelligence systems.
Ministers propose to change existing laws so that the technical giants can use any online material, such as text, images or music, to improve their AI models – without respect copyright laws that ensure that his makers are paid.
Time Traveler POV is run by a 26-year-old Brit who only gave his first name, Daniel, when he was approached by MailOnline. POV Lab was founded by the Norwegian man Hogne, 27.
Daniel told MailOnline that his videos 'are meant to be cinematic and compelling, not strict documentaries'.
A clip generated by AI that gives life in Pompeii on the day of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. The video is equipped with time traveler POV with a history theme on Tik Tok. Historian and archaeologist Dr. Hannanah Platts pointed to different errors in the video
A video posted on the Time Traveler POV account gives viewers a 'tour' of Allied neighborhoods in 1917 during the First World War, in which scenes are displayed, including the 'Observation Post' and the 'Food Tent'
The other videos of Time Traveler POV include a entitled 'POV: you wake up as Chernobyl Worker in 1986'. Then it shows the day that the nuclear disaster took place in Ukraine
He said: 'I want to capture the feeling of history, and if they cause curiosity and get people interested in the past, I see that as a success.
“This brings a new audience to the subject that would otherwise have had no interest in it, it's just a bit fun.”
The maker added: 'All my content is labeled as' AI generated', so that people know that it is not real, and AI has his limitations, not every detail will be absolutely perfect, it would be impossible.
“I add comic elements to my videos to remind you of viewers that they should not be taken too seriously.”
His other videos include a 'POV: you wake up as Chernobyl Worker in 1986'.
Then it shows the day that the nuclear disaster took place in Ukraine, but without dedication to accurately portray what happened.
Barbara Keys, a professor in the history of the US at the University of Durham, criticized this representation.
She said: 'If you google images of Chernobyl, it doesn't look like what's in the video.
“So it seems that the AI ​​does not get the basic facts of what the plant looked like correctly.”
She added: 'The fundamental problem is that when you do history, you always tell people where your sources come from.
“You don't say someone told me or that a history professor told me. But the AI ​​does not tell us which sources he uses. We do not know what the methodology is. '
Another video shows someone who wakes up during the black death.
At one point, a woman with a bloody face only stretches her arms for help while she is standing in a mud -filled street.
Clips placed by the POV Lab account include both old and modern representations
Professor Keys said that the display is 'as a Disney film interpretation of a medieval city', with so -called impoverished sick people who look 'very healthy' and 'modern'.
Also depicted in a clip is the day in 1945 when the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
It starts with a view of someone's first person who looks at the city from their bed, shortly after waking up.
One of the last scenes shows the unfolding massacre while the bomber Enola Gay is flown away shortly after dropping the bomb, killing more than 100,000 civilians.
Mr. Schaefer said about the video of the trenches: 'This is not an image of the First World War Not at all.
“Without a cooler of accuracy to ground it, the trenches of the video, fighting conditions, absurd uniforms and weapons and bizarre mix of aesthetics of video games and distorted images make it completely nonsensical and a terrible representation.”
More in general, he added: 'At the moment these AI videos with historical events have no value.
'Even if they were considered charming as fantastic or artistic imagination, their inherent lack of visual cohesion did not make them convincing.
'The absence of stylistic and design consistency and the clear inability to build these images on historically solid source material completely frames every sense of credibility.
Another POV Lab video is entitled 'POV: You are a kid in the Stone Age (3000BC)'. Viewers see from the eyes of a child while they wake up in a cave on a bed made of fur
They are just as enlightening as a crayon scraps from a toddler and offer no real insight or accurate representation of the past. '
The Pompeii video shows a burger who wakes up on an idyllic day, with Mount Vesuvius visibly in the midst of blue skies.
The clip then shifts to someone who chooses from a range of lush food and long glasses filled with wine.
Later in the clip there is a market scene, with someone who is shown to hold a bread in a basket.
And a group of men with a high status are seen at a dining table enjoying a meal before the massacre of the eruption.
While a disaster strikes, people who apparently wear modern clothing for their lives walk through the paved streets before the lava floods the city and the surrounding area.
But Dr. Platts, teacher old history at Royal Holloway University in London, wanted to emphasize various inaccuracies.
She said: 'This video is interesting, but from the start it is inaccurate.
'The display of the eruption does not reflect what we know, not only on eyewitness accounts, but also geological research. I think that is problematic. '
The expert said that the all-male dining room does not reflect 'the elite novel convivium' that she said it was open to women.
And they would not be on chairs, but instead 'lying on benches' while they support themselves.
Dr. Platts added: 'The real shame for me was the display of the bread bread.
'We have carbon bread rolls that have been found, and we have brilliant murals that are the same as the remains that have been excavated.
'But that is not what is depicted in this video. My problem with these videos is that this is proof and information.
“It is accessible, so I don't understand why it is not used.”
Another POV Lab clip shows a child who wakes up in ancient Egypt in the year 1250BC
She added: “The problem is that we run the risk that people write history to adjust what they want, or write history that is not being investigated properly and done quickly and cheaply, and that worries me.”
Clips placed by the POV Lab account include both old and modern representations.
One is entitled 'POV: You are a child in the Stone Age (3000BC)'. Viewers see from the eyes of a child while they wake up in a cave on a bed made of fur.
They are then seen outside with their brothers and sisters before they join their father on a wild boar hunt.
Another POV Lab clip shows a child who wakes up in ancient Egypt in the year 1250 BC.
A third video takes viewers to the 20th century, with the Moon Landing of 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
At one point one of the astronauts is seen who runs in a moon rover.
In reality there was no buggy on the 1969 mission. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was first used on the On The Apollo 15 mission in 1971.
The maker of POV Lab has been approached for comment.
