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webAn ADL practitioner report relevant to AI safety insofar as it documents real-world misuse of generative AI for disinformation; more focused on extremism monitoring than technical AI safety research.
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The ADL Center on Extremism's 2025 report identifies three major disinformation tactics observed in 2024: generative AI for hate content creation, algorithmic amplification of false narratives, and coordinated inauthentic behavior. The report contextualizes how these tactics harm marginalized communities and offers a framework for anticipating extremist information operations in 2025.
Key Points
- •Generative AI tools are increasingly used by extremists to create and spread hate content, propaganda, and synthetic media like AI-generated Hitler speeches.
- •Algorithmic amplification on social media platforms significantly extends the reach of false narratives and extremist content.
- •Coordinated inauthentic behavior—networks of fake accounts—remains a core tactic for manufacturing the appearance of grassroots support.
- •These tactics disproportionately target Jewish communities, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.
- •Understanding 2024 trends is framed as essential for predicting and countering 2025 extremist information operations.
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Throughout 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism documented the tactics deployed by extremists and purveyors of hate to promote false narratives, as well as the harmful impact of conspiracy theories , misinformation and disinformation on communities including Jews, immigrants and other marginalized groups.
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Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) to spread hate and propaganda
In recent years, the ADL Center on Extremism has highlighted how purveyors of conspiracy theories and hate use generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools to promote disinformation, extremist rhetoric and harmful content. 2024 proved no different, but advances in this technology made these tools more pernicious as social media continued to serve as fertile ground for AI-generated hate.
Videos showing English-language Hitler speeches once again went viral in September 2024, following similar content that circulated widely on X (formerly Twitter) earlier in the year, and on fringe platforms in 2023. Other types of audio-based GAI content popularized in 2024 came from apps like Suno , which users exploited to create AI-generated songs promoting hate, conspiracy theories and violence.
Song lyrics praising mass shooter Brenton Tarrant —who is serving life in prison for the 2019 New Zealand killings at two mosques in Christchurch — as courageous, saying “he saved us all.” (Suno/Screenshot)
In April 2024, hateful GAI images migrated beyond the screen when the Michigan chapter of the white supremacist group White Lives Matter (WLM) rented roadside billboards in the metro Detroit area. These included white supremacist dog whistles alongside an image of Hitler that appeared to be AI-generated, making the billboard on
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