Generative AI and English nationalists are teaming up to make the internet a worse place by swamping it with unhinged ‘patriotic’ slop featuring French knights, dinosaurs, and far too many Winston Churchills
Thanks to a combination of rising far-right rhetoric in the UK and what appears to be Meta’s increased tolerance for AI-generated content on its platforms, accounts dedicated to the St George’s Cross-wearing, bangers and mash-loving nationalist collective in England are churning out AI slop, which often contains islamophobic or anti-immigrant messaging.
These typically anonymous accounts, almost all of which feature a near-parody level of Union Jacks and St George’s Crosses, have spread like wildfire across Facebook in particular.
Things reached their horrifying peak in late August