Far-right activists use AI to generate dystopian European city videos
Far-right activists across Europe intentionally used Google's Veo 3 AI video tool to generate dystopian videos depicting major cities as overrun by migrants and social decay, spreading the content on platforms including TikTok and X to amplify xenophobic narratives. Alternative fΓΌr Deutschland politicians, including Maximilian Krah, generated over 1.3 million views with AI-created content depicting fictional immigration scenarios and offensive religious imagery.
What happened
Far-right activists across Europe used AI tools to create hyper-realistic, dystopian videos depicting major European cities as overrun by migrants and collapsing under cultural decay. Videos shared on platforms including X and TikTok showed cities such as London, Brussels and Berlin transformed into chaotic environments covered in Arabic graffiti or filled with crowds in Islamic attire.
Alternative fΓΌr Deutschland (AfD) politician Maximilian Krah used AI-generated imagery on TikTok to depict fictional German families, staged nationalist demonstrations, and fabricated scenarios of cultural threat from immigration, generating over 1.3 million views across 28 AI-generated video thumbnails. The AfD Esslingen branch posted AI-generated images including one depicting a pig roast during Ramadan 2024 captioned 'The feast of enjoyment.'
Reported impact
These fabricated 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. The trend exposes the weaponisation of synthetic media to manipulate public opinion and erode democratic discourse.
Index analysis
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.
Governance controls
The lack of platform accountability, particularly on X and fringe social media spaces, enabled these visuals to spread faster than moderation systems could respond. Some videos were removed for hate content after reaching millions of viewers.
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Sources and evidence
This record was researched and written by the Index, based on the following original reporting.