US EditionTikTok Is Being Flooded with Racist AI Videos Generated by Google’s Veo 3
- TikTok videos generated with Google's Veo 3 have gone viral, amassing millions of views while depicting racist and antisemitic tropes.
- Google’s Veo 3’s lax safety filters and TikTok’s moderation challenges enabled viral spread of racist videos created with the AI tool since its May launch.
- Media Matters found that one Veo 3-generated clip reached 14.2 million views, with watermark evidence confirming the source, indicating high virality despite moderation gaps.
- TikTok removed over half the accounts identified by Media Matters before the report, but enforcement remains insufficient, said spokesperson Ariane de Selliers.
- As Google plans to expand Veo 3 integration into YouTube Shorts and similar content appears on Instagram, moderation challenges will intensify globally.
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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 …
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