ever heard of AI
I do not think AI was prevalent in the 1980s, if in use at all. Computers were huge mainframes and there were not sophisticated graphics.
I think I remember the photo, plus rumors that some Americans stayed purposely.
This was not AI. This was sometime back in the early 1980s.
Thank you. I thought you meant the photo I’m talking about might have been generated by AI. But you must mean to use AI to look for it.
I found a NY Times article from 1991 about this. This is most likely the photo I’m thinking of:
The Administration has begun a diplomatic effort around Southeast Asia to check the veracity of a photograph that supposedly shows that three American flyers missing since the Vietnam War may still be alive, officials said.
The blurry black-and-white snapshot shows three mustachioed men posing in a woody setting with a white sign marked with the numbers “25-5-1990,” which may be meant as the date May 25, 1990. There is nothing visible in the photo that definitively establishes the location, time or identity of the men. Nevertheless, relatives of three American listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia said today that the men shown in the photo were their relatives.
Since a copy of the photograph was made public by a former Vietnam War prisoner of war on Monday, it has added fuel to a growing contention in Congress and among some veterans groups that the Administration should work harder to account for the missing in action.
Administration officials said it would take time for Federal Bureau of Investigation technicians to determine whether the photograph appears to be authentic, and they note that the picture could have been faked by people hoping to receive a reward from relatives and P.O.W.-M.I.A. groups for the information they offer. But they say they are taking the picture seriously because American officials have received several reports from around Southeast Asia that the three men have been seen by witnesses. ‘Hard Not to Take It Seriously’
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/18/world/does-photo-show-3-vietnam-mia-s.html