If you’re on social media right now, you may not realize you’re being fed racist videos spreading misinformation about the 41 million Americans who get food stamps, or benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
In many of these videos that appear to be generated by the artificial intelligence app Sora, people with SNAP benefits are being demonized as people defrauding the government.
Mostly Black women are seen loudly arguing with retail employees over declining payments on electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards. Some are seen stealing from grocery stores.
In others, AI-generated Black women boast about being “set” because of the public assistance they receive due to their children with multiple fathers.
HuffPost reached out to OpenAI to ask if this kind of content violates the company’s standards for Sora-generated videos, but did not hear back. But even when these AI-generated videos are obviously fake, they are still making people watch and engage with these pernicious stereotypes.
