Is there a chance that no one needed any AI generated pictures of historical figures in the first place (the only reason I can think of for making them is to agitate people on the internet)? They aren't real and so obviously fake it's not even funny. How do you want them to respond to this nonsense?
We are entering an era where nothing on the internet could be trusted. You going to say we had misinformation since forever, but nothing on this scale and this easy to make and spread.
Probably longer and with ideas that they didn't thought of. On account of an open question like that. Which it seems many other commenters came up with.