Far-right activists use AI to generate dystopian European city videos
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Occurred: June 2025
Page published: October 2025
Artificial intelligence tools have been exploited by far-right groups across Europe to create hyper-realistic, dystopian videos depicting European cities as overrun by migrants and collapsing under cultural and social decay.
What happened
What happened
Videos shared on platforms like X and TikTok show major cities such as London, Brussels, and Berlin transformed into chaotic, decaying environments covered in Arabic graffiti or filled with crowds in Islamic attire.
These fabricated AI images are intended to amplify far-right narratives about immigration, national decline, and alleged threats to European identity, and to fuel racial tensions, normalise xenophobic beliefs, and undermine trust in institutions.
Accounts linked to British and European extremists, including Tommy Robinson and German AfD activists, have circulated these clips widely, reaching millions of viewers before some were removed for hate content.
Why it happened
Why it happened
Far-right movements are using AI to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and create visual “proof” for their ideological claims.
Researchers note that weak regulatory oversight and easily manipulated safeguard filters on AI systems allow extremists to mass-produce racist and misleading imagery.
The lack of platform accountability, particularly on X and fringe social media spaces, enables these visuals to spread faster than moderation systems can respond.
What it means
What it means
The trend exposes the growing weaponisation of synthetic media at scale to manipulate public opinion and erode democratic discourse.
Without government or regulatory action, AI-generated propaganda threatens to blur the line between fact and fabrication in Europe’s political and cultural landscape.
It also raises questions about the failure of AI developers to safeguard their systems and social media platform owners to moderate their platforms properly.
System 🤖
System 🤖
Veo 3 🔗
Developer: Google
Country: Belgium; France; Germany; Italy; Netherlands; UK
Sector: Politics
Purpose: Manipulate public opinion
Technology: Generative AI; Machine learning
Issue: Bias/discrimination; Mis/disinformation; Transparency
Research, advocacy 🧮
Research, advocacy 🧮
Center for the Study of Organized Hate. AI-Generated Aesthetics and the Politics of the German Far-Right
AIAAIC Repository ID: AIAAIC2066
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