Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok

[highplainsdem]

Source: Media Matters

Racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos are getting millions of views on TikTok.

These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist tropes, such as depicting Black people as monkeys and criminals and featuring imagery of Black people with watermelons and fried chicken.

Users are also posting misleading AI-generated videos of immigrants and protesters, including videos in which protesters are run over by cars. And in an especially dystopian nightmare, AI-generated videos are reenacting marginalized groups’ historical traumas, depicting concentration camps and Ku Klux Klan attacks on Black Americans.

TikTok’s community guidelines prohibit videos dehumanizing racial and ethnic groups as well as “threatening or expressing a desire to cause physical injury to a person or a group.” The platform has a long history of struggling to contain hate speech, violent content, and misleading AI-generated content, and the dehumanizing and sometimes violent videos that Media Matters has now identified are seemingly spreading unchecked on the social media platform.

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Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racist-ai-generated-videos-are-newest-slop-garnering-millions-views-tiktok

[LudwigPastorius]

1. No wonder Trump extended the non-ban.

Really though, this sounds right up Elon Musk's alley. Wouldn't be surprised if he buys it.

[Demovictory9]

2. One youtuber always features an AI generated pic that features POC rioting

[NEOBuckeye]

3. Like pigs wallowing in shit

Racists doing their thing.

Who are the real dregs of humanity? These monsters are.

[Silent Type]

4. Right or wrong, I tend to believe anyone who is not already a racist/bigoted POS, won't become

a racist watching AI crap. Do see risk with younger people, but their parents would have to be bigots or oblivious not to intervene.

I wish there were some way to control that kind of vile crud on Tik-tok, and other sites. I’d even give up collecting rube memes — like a dumbass with a confederate flag with a t-shirt logo that says, “My incestors built this country” — to respond if it stopped.

Don’t know how we control it. But maybe someone has ideas.

[Karasu]

5. Is this the modern Republican idea of entertainment now? Fucking hell.

[SheltieLover]

6. Infuriatung!

[sinkingfeeling]

7. All that AI/TikTok/X shit should be eradicated from.our lives.