Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' Now everyone can be the coolest kid in school. Using artificial intelligence, people are turning themselves into nostalgic high school personas in a new and already-viral "AI yearbook" trend. Social media users have tried out AI-powered platforms such as the EPIK AI photo editor, which allows people to turn a modern photo of themselves into what looks like a yearbook portrait from any era (the 1990s has been the most popular). TikTok influencers such as Olivia Dunne and Joe Mele have also used these apps to transform themselves into classic high-school tropes like the jock, the nerd, the rebel, the popular kid and other stereotypes.

A yearbook is a type of a book published annually to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. Our team at MyHeritage took on a complex project: extracting individual pictures, names, and ages from hundreds of thousands of yearbooks, structuring the data, and creating a searchable index that covers the majority of US schools between the years 1890–1979 -- more than 290 million individuals. In this article I'll describe what problems we encountered during this project and how we solved them. First of all, let me explain why we needed to tackle this challenge. MyHeritage is a genealogy platform that provides access to almost 10 billion historical records.