Desktop accidentally flooded with jpegs with dates in 1970,1980 I can't open them and if I trash them there are warnings. What can I do?

I was moving some photos to desktop and accidentally started the computer flooding the desktop with jpegs. I turned the computer off to stop it continuing. These jpegs cannot be opened and if I try to trash them it says they are being used or that it may damage something. They cannot be opened and info on them says dates like 1970, many years before I had a comptuer.
Can anyone help? How can I safely get rid of theses 100s of jpegs cluttering my desktop? Why did it happene? How to stop it recurring?

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