According to a new report from Media Matters, the virus's racist and anti-Semitic ticoku videos are apparently being created with Google's new AI video generator Veo 3.
The non-profit research institute has found that some of the hateful videos have earned hundreds of thousands or millions of views.
A Tiktok spokesperson told Mashable that the platform has solid policies against hate speech and implements them using comprehensive technology and mitigation processes.
“We actively implemented robust rules for hateful speeches and behaviour, and deleted the accounts we identified in the report, many of which were already banned prior to the publication of the report,” the spokesman told Mashable in an email.
Labeled as “Average Waffle House in Atlanta,” one Tiktok featured a restaurant set where monkeys overrun with watermelons throwing and carrying buckets of fried chicken. When media issues took a screenshot of the video, it had been viewed over 622,000 times.
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Some commenters confirmed the racist stereotypes in the video. One said, “All their mannerism… to…”
Another Tiktok uploaded in mid-June has been prompted with at least 835,000 views, “Asked AI: 'Average Spirit Aviation Experience'.” The video also featured a monkey and climbed the entire plane.
According to Media Matters, the identified video ran up to 8 seconds, the length of VEO 3's published text-to-video. The video had either labeled “Veo” on the corners or used hashtags, captions, or users related to VEO 3 or AI. It also contained nonsense text that is common to errors, distortions, and AI-generated videos.
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Media Matters has published edits of clips that it has identified on its own YouTube account.
Mashable contacted Google about comments on the Media Matters report, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
When Veo 3 was released in late May, Mashable Tech Editor's Timothy Beck Werth described its realism as “impressive” and “scary.” Google told Werth that Veo 3's misinformation safeguards include digital watermarks and adopts AI safety guidelines.
The AI-generated videos identified by media issues included anti-Black stereotypes about crime, food preferences, and absent fathers. Some featured police encounters with black people, including those in which white police officers shoot “black things” from his car. The clip was displayed over 14 million times.
The clip also portrayed racist images of people in Asia and South Asia, and depicted anti-Semitic stereotypes involving Jewish men chasing gold coins.
One clip, seen a million times, features a gaunt man standing in front of a crematorium while in a Nazi concentration camp. “Well, everyone has a great time here,” the man says. It is unknown if the VEO 3 made a one-minute video.
The video, generated by another style of AI, appeared to focus on acting violently against immigrants and protesters defending protesters.
The video appears to violate Google's hate speech policy. Google's generative AI policy prohibits users from generating or distributing content that promotes hatred and hate speech. Harassment and abuse of others, violence, or inciting violence.
Tiktok “prohibits hate speech and hateful behavior, including attack, threatening, dehumanizing or dehumanizing an individual or group based on protected attributes.
Updated: July 3, 2025, 1:02 PM PDT The story has been updated to include a statement from Tiktok.
