Veo 3, a new AI video generation tool by Google, has been exploited to create highly offensive and racist content, including violent reenactments and stereotypical portrayals of marginalized groups. A report from Media Matters for America highlights significant concerns about this misuse, with many such videos achieving hundreds of thousands to over a million views on TikTok. Despite TikTok's Community Guidelines prohibiting hate speech and hateful ideologies, the dissemination of these videos raises alarming questions about content enforcement and platform accountability in the face of widespread abusive content.
"[W]hile I don't think it's going to propel us to a misinformation doomsday just yet, Veo 3 strikes me as an absolute AI slop machine," Johnson wrote.
According to the report, users have been using Veo 3 to create videos featuring "videos in which protesters are run over by cars" and "reenacting marginalized groups' historical traumas" - as well as videos that traffic in outright racist stereotypes.
What's even worse is that people seem to be tuning in to them: many of the videos cited in the report had hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, while some exceeded one million views.
"We do not allow any hate speech, hateful behavior, or promotion of hateful ideologies," the company stated on its Community Guidelines page.
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