“We miss you”: AI-Hitler viral among young people on Tiktok

Published 25 September 2024 at 09.56

Cultural news. AI-generated audio clips of Adolf Hitler's speech in English have gone viral on Tiktok, garnering millions of views among younger users. This is reported by the Jerusalem Post.

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These are clips translated from German with the help of AI, so that it sounds like Hitler speaks fluent English with his own voice.

Sky News has noted in a review 72,000 different video clips that use speeches from Hitler and other Nazi leaders as soundtracks, some of which have received millions of likes.

A post , which received over 56,000 likes, showed a picture of a party meeting in Nuremberg with a Hitler speech as background noise.

A comment on the post, which received 1,695 likes, read: “Modern society absolutely needs him “.

“We miss you,” wrote another user as a comment.

The material is also used for entertainment purposes. The review shows that audio clips of Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels are often combined with popular music, such as so-called drift phonk.

Music producer Vivian Moon, known as Pastel Ghost, says she is actively working to take down Hitler videos that using her music.

Tiktok has responded by removing the content. The company emphasizes that it has strict rules against so-called hate speech, and states that 91 percent of this type of content is removed even before it is reported.

Despite these efforts, the posts have spread widely, with over 13, 7 million likes.