AI project imagines adult faces of children who disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship

The computer screen of Santiago Barros shows old photographs of couple Maria Eugenia Gonzalez and Nestor Oscar Junquera, who disappeared during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, above AI-generated images, using an app called Midjourney, of what their stolen son might look like today, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. — AP

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: If a baby was taken from their parents four decades ago during Argentina’s military dictatorship, what would that person look like today?

Argentine publicist Santiago Barros has been trying to answer that question using artificial intelligence to create images of what the children of parents who disappeared during the dictatorship might look like as adults.