Artificial intelligence is reimagining history

From Mahatma Gandhi vlogging his Salt March to Shah Jahan offering a quirky home tour of the Red Fort, ‘AI-generated videos are giving history a Gen Z twist.

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These short, influencer-style reels are going viral on Instagram, drawing in young audiences with their meme-worthy tone and bite-sized history lessons.

Creators are using AI tools to bring historical figures into the modern era—speaking in everyday slang, joking about steroids, or even pitching businesses on a fictional ‘Mughal Shark Tank.’

“I started my page just two weeks back, as an experiment to blend AI with history,” said Rahul S Nair, creator of the Instagram page Katha.Ai, which now has over 122,000 followers.

“I didn’t expect that these videos will be received so well, especially by the Union Public Ser-

vice Commission and government exam aspirants who now have an opportunity to brush up their concepts even while using social media.”

Nair, an Indian architect based in London, is a history buff leveraging AI to make learning fun.