With alarmingly racist lyrics and an undeniably catchy chorus, the song ‘Je Partira Pas’ spread like wildfire on French social media amid the 2024 French elections – elections that saw the popularity of far-right parties surge. The viral song was out of the ordinary in that it was generated by AI, part of a growing trend of the far-right adopting new technologies to spread their views.
While AI-generated deepfake images and audio circulating disinformation have made headlines related to elections across Europe and the US, racist AI songs have also been generated at a significant scale. Far-right and white supremacist AI-generated songs have been created in response to recent events, from the UK’s anti-migrant riots in Southport, to the rise of US Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to the victory of Donald Trump.
