4chan using Bing's AI to generate racist images, manages to bypass filters

4chan users are coordinating a posting campaign where they use Bing’s AI text-to-image generator to create racist images that they can then post across the internet. The news shows how users are able to manipulate free to access, easy to use AI tools to quickly flood the internet with racist garbage, even when those tools are allegedly strictly moderated. “We’re making propaganda for fun. Join us, it’s comfy,” the 4chan thread instructs. “MAKE, EDIT, SHARE.” A visual guide hosted on Imgur that’s linked in that post instructs users to use AI image generators, edit them to add captions that make them seem like political campaigns, and post them to social media sites, specifically Telegram, Twitter, and Instagram. 404 Media has also seen these images shared on a TikTok account that has since been removed.

Not that I'm even remotely surprised at the depths of racist, disgusting, or outright hateful behavior exhibited by 4chan users, but still, this is terrifying. This is par the course, if not outright expected. Of course 4chan users would stoop to this level.

Side note, probably old news but it's fascinating that AI can so accurately create images of characters that are copyrighted, like Kirby or Mickey Mouse.