Overview
- Media Matters found numerous eight-second videos branded with the “Veo” watermark that target Black, Jewish, immigrant and Asian communities with racist and antisemitic tropes.
- One clip generated by the AI tool has amassed more than 14 million views, demonstrating the viral reach of these hate-filled deepfakes.
- TikTok’s community guidelines explicitly ban hate speech, yet the platform has taken little visible action to remove the offending content.
- Google launched Veo 3 in May with guardrails and invisible SynthID codes designed to block harmful requests, but those measures have not prevented misuse.
- Similar AI-generated hate videos have surfaced on YouTube and Instagram, highlighting a wider challenge for social networks dealing with deepfake content.