Over a dozen Artificial Intelligence (AI) accounts of Black women are being removed from TikTok for promoting racist and sexually inappropriate content.
AI seems to be adapting at a rapid pace, and concerns have risen about how ethical it actually is. In recent news, the short-form video platform, TikTok, has been flagged for its rise of fake accounts. More concerningly, AI-generated profiles of Black women are spreading racially-motivated hate speech and sexually inappropriate content.
The problem has been flagged by various news outlets, including the BBC, which has launched an official investigation. In addition, TikTok creators have been calling the problem out, flagging the rise of these accounts, and showing people how to tell apart real Black content creators, from AI slop.
The finer details…
So far, a total of 20 accounts have been flagged and reported. Additionally, a large proportion of the fake accounts are also said to have pages on Instagram. Both of which have accumulated thousands of followers in short bursts of time. This is one of the reasons these AI accounts have been detected in the first place. Activity on the accounts shows unrealistic growth in followers and activity in short periods of time.
So far, the accounts have been issued for creating sexually inappropriate content of Black women on TikTok and Instagram. They feature fake videos of half-dressed women promoting public indecency and using terms such as “black”, “noir”, “dark” and “ebony” for their account names.
Meta reportedly told the BBC that it was investigating the issue; however, no action has been taken. So far, the BBC is the only organisation that has investigated the matter and drawn further attention to it.
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