Black people, immigrants, protesters, other racial and ethnic groups deepfake (Jul 2025)

Racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos are spreading on TikTok, using Google's Veo 3. These videos traffic in racist tropes, such as depicting Black people as monkeys and criminals, showing imagery of Black people with watermelons and fried chicken, reenacting marginalized groups’ historical traumas, depicting concentration camps and Ku Klux Klan attacks on Black Americans, violence against protesters, negative stereotypes about South Asian people and Jewish people