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How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe | Experts say fake images raising fears around issues such as immigration have proliferated since EU elections
Experts say fake images raising fears around issues such as immigration have proliferated since EU elections
From fake images designed to cause fears of an immigrant “invasion” to other demonisation campaigns targeted at leaders such as Emmanuel Macron, far-right parties and activists across western Europe are at the forefront of the political weaponisation of generative artificial intelligence technology. The far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has also appeared in AI-generated images and has the technology on his own social media accounts, including one post commemorating D-day that attracted derision because it showed second world war troops marching off the beach and into the sea. In Italy, the populist Lega party published anti-trans and Islamophobic AI-generated images including a bearded pregnant man, a group of men in Arab-style clothing burning a copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Macron posing as a fictional “EU soldier”, in a message with anti-EU overtones.
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