Fox News is reporting on racist AI videos as if they’re real

Fox News has run a report covering a series of AI-generated videos:

this is a viral string of AI videos and fox news reported on it like it’s a real person?! https://t.co/cbSGu8hNab

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) October 31, 2025

This isn’t a sign of what’s to come in future; this is a sign that outlets are abandoning any notion of objective journalism right now.

Fox News’ slopaganda

At the end of September, OpenAI released the Sora 2 video generator. While the app doesn’t always achieve photo realism, some of the videos it creates are disturbingly lifelike. This means people can now generate ‘deepfakes’ at the click of a button.

The Fox News article is still live despite people screaming ‘THIS ISN’T REAL’ at them. In the piece, Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi writes:

SNAP beneficiaries have expressed outrage on social media over the government shutdown that could affect their grocery benefits starting next month, and some are even threatening to ransack stores if food stamp payments don’t go through starting Nov. 1.

“It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to take care of my kids,” one emotional mother said in a video posted online. “It is the taxpayer’s job to pay for my kids to eat and for my kids to be taken care of.”

The same woman also complained about how none of her TikTok followers had sent her money, warning she would block anyone who viewed her videos without sending cash.

“Because of the government shutdown, now I can’t get my SNAPs for next month,” another user shared on social media.

The user went on to ask how she was supposed to feed her seven children.

“I have seven different baby daddies and none of ‘em no good for me,” she said.

Is Fox News going to retract the story about a Black woman with seven children by seven different men needing her SNAP funding? The story about the woman is AI generated, designed to enrage viewers. Fox needs to vet videos they find on TikTok before they use them.

— Ann C from Maine (@anniemgc) November 1, 2025

The videos mostly feature Black women who are speaking as if they’re in a racist cartoon from the 1920s. As the Fox article notes, one of those reacting to the videos is right-wing commentator Brett Cooper:

Our media ecosystem is so fucked truly

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) October 31, 2025

The question now is this: are Fox News writers too stupid to pick up on the signs of AI, or do they simply not care?

Deepfakes

People are highlighting that this situation was all very predictable:

This is just the beginning of how they will use AI. pic.twitter.com/aLxeEYBq3o

— Caroline Renard (@carolinerenard_) October 26, 2025

In the video above, TikToker Jeremy Carrasco says:

This is AI. Here’s how we know and why it matters.

It’s made by Impossible_ASMR1, who – after eight failed slop posts and a three-month break – decided that Sora could finally make their dream content – videos of black women trying to use [Electronic Benefit Transfer] in places it’s not accepted.

True creativity unleashed by AI.

The shutdown created an opportunity to have them yell at the camera, but it’s not until the whole family’s back there, that the full racist stereotype is fulfilled. This is rage bait, and will get angry commenters who – when they learn it’s AI – will say, ‘oh, but it’s true anyway’. Which of course it’s not, and that’s cope for being played.

They were so played they didn’t notice the kid missing half an arm while the other kids are frozen in place for no reason, and these down here are warping together. They were too focused on this fake AI person cramming in a script that they used three other times for their other fake AI people.

Decline of the times

The EU has already regulated AI, making it mandatory that:

Content that is either generated or modified with the help of AI – images, audio or video files (for example deepfakes) – need to be clearly labelled as AI generated so that users are aware when they come across such content.

The problem is, what happens when they don’t?

While there are no perfect solutions, Fox News can and should pay people to check that the content they’re reporting on is real. After all, if they can afford to settle a $750m defamation lawsuit, they can afford to do basic fact checking.

Featured image via Jeremy Carrasco (TikTok)