AI tools ‘exploited’ for racist European city videos

Daubed in Arabic-looking graffiti, London‘s Big Ben is shown smouldering above piles of rubbish and crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb in an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital.

Far-right leaders and politicians are seizing on such clips of reimagined European cities changed by migration to promote racist views, falsely suggesting AI is objectively predicting the future.

The videos — which show immigrants “replacing” white people — can be made quickly using popular chatbots, despite guardrails intended to block harmful…