A recent report published by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSOH) documented the alarming rise of AI-generated images to create an Islamophobic rhetoric in India.
Authored by Nabiya Khan, Aishik Saha and Zenith Khan, the report highlights the role of AI-generated images in shaping anti-Muslim visual hate content in the digital landscape. It states that while there has been an in-depth documentation through studies, reports, and journalistic investigations, the use of AI-generated visuals with the sole purpose of dehumanising Muslims has seldom been studied or analysed.
It studied 1,326 publicly available AI-generated Islamophobic posts between May 2023 and May 2025 from 297 accounts across various social media platforms, with a large engagement.
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