Chuck Darwin<p>The far right is using AI to sell Hitler to a new generation</p><p>Far Right extremists are using artificial intelligence to reanimate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Adolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adolf</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> online for a new generation, <br>recasting the Nazi German leader who orchestrated the Holocaust as a “misunderstood” figure <br>whose <a href="https://c.im/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> and <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/anti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anti</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> messages are freshly resonant in politics today.</p><p>
In audio and video clips that have reached millions of viewers over the past month on TikTok, X, Instagram and YouTube, <br>the führer’s AI-cloned voice quavers and crescendos as he delivers <a href="https://c.im/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a>-language versions of some of his most notorious addresses, <br>including his 1939 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reichstag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reichstag</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> predicting the end of Jewish people in Europe. </p><p>Some seeking to spread the practice of making Hitler videos have hosted online trainings.<br>
The posts, which make use of cheap and popular <a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voice</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/cloning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloning</span></a> tools, have drawn praise in comments on X and TikTok, such as<br> “I miss you uncle A,” <br>“He was a hero,” and <br>“Maybe he is NOT the villain.” </p><p>On Telegram and the “dark web,” extremists brag that the AI-manipulated speeches offer an engaging and effortless way to repackage Hitler’s ideas to <a href="https://c.im/tags/radicalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalize</span></a> young people.</p><p> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/27/neonazis-ai-hitler-videos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/technology/</span><span class="invisible">2024/09/27/neonazis-ai-hitler-videos/</span></a></p>