Popular videos of AI-animals portraying Black women have people outraged. 

For example, one AI-generated "bigfoot baddie" video shows the creature donning a pink wig and acrylic nails addressing a fictitious audience via an iPhone. 

"We may need to flee," she declares in the video. "I am being sought for a false report regarding my child's father." This AI video, which was produced by Google's Veo 3, has garnered more than one million views on Instagram. Many are saying these popular posts use AI video tools like Veo 3, to perpetuate racist tropes and depict Black women as primates.

Veo 3, which was introduced at Google's developer conference in May, was a resounding success among online audiences. The popularity of surreal descendants of Biblical characters and cryptids, such as bigfoot, who engage in influencer-style vlogging, spread rapidly across social media. Google even made use of AI-generated bigfoot vlogs as a selling point in advertisements that promoted the new feature.

In a reported feature with WIRED, Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution said, “There's a historical precedent behind why this is offensive. In the early days of slavery, Black people were overexaggerated in illustrations to emphasize primal characteristics.” said She went on to assert that Black individuals were exaggerated in illustrations to emphasize their primordial characteristics during the early days of slavery.

Turner Lee went on to tell WIRED in an interview that she finds it both, “...disgusting and disturbing that these racial tropes and images are readily available to be designed and distributed on online platforms.” 

According to the outlet, five videos of one of the most popular Instagram accounts that posts these generated snippets have garnered over one million views in less than a month since the account's initial post. In the AI videos, the animal-woman hybrids are depicted speaking African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in a caricatured fashion. 

According to WIRED, a spokesperson for Meta, Instagram’s owner, declined to comment on the record in response to their story.