US Edition
TikTok Is Being Flooded with Racist AI Videos Generated by Google’s Veo 3
- Since its release on May 20, Google's Veo 3 AI model has been used to generate racist and antisemitic videos spreading on TikTok and other platforms.
- Media Matters uncovered these videos amid concerns that Veo 3's realism and existing guardrails fail to prevent hateful stereotypes from being created and shared.
- The videos often depict Black people with racist tropes such as monkeys, criminals, and portray police violence, alongside antisemitic and immigrant-targeting content.
- One police chase video received 5.3 million views, while other clips ranged from 147,600 to over 4 million views, demonstrating their wide reach on TikTok.
- Although TikTok and Google have policies banning hateful content and removed many violating accounts, the volume and nature of videos suggest content moderation struggles may continue.
16 Articles
16 Articles
Racist, antisemitic Veo 3 AI videos on TikTok, report finds
Viral racist and antisemitic TikTok videos appear to be made with Google's new AI video generator Veo 3, according to a new report from Media Matters. The nonprofit research organization found that some of the hateful videos had racked up hundreds of thousands or millions of views. A TikTok spokesperson told Mashable that the platform has firm policies against hate speech, and that it uses comprehensive technologies and moderation processes to i…
Racist videos created with AI are becoming a problem in TikTok. This is pointed out in a Media Matters research, an American non-profit organization dedicated to media surveillance, which points out that many of them could have been created with the brand new content generation tool Veo 3 , created by Google. Among the videos located by the organization are the contents in which black people are associated with monkeys or criminals, one of them …
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Left
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
