Comment by quitit

In your favour is the fact that AI can "hallucinate", and generate realistic, but false information. So that does raise the question "why are you using AI when seeking factual reference material?".

However on the other hand that is a misuse of AI, since we already know that hallucinations exist, are common, and that AI output must be verified by a human.

So as a counterpoint, there are sound reasons for using AI to generate images based on history. The same reasons are why we use illustrations to demonstrate ideas where there is no photographic record.

A straightforward example is visualising the lifetime/lifestyle of long past historical figures.