NEW DELHI — Artificial intelligence-generated images and videos are fueling a new wave of anti-Muslim hate across India’s social media ecosystem, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), which warns that AI has become a powerful amplifier of anti-minority narratives.
CSOH, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan think-tank that researches organized hate, published “AI-Generated Imagery and the New Frontier of Islamophobia in India” on Sept. 29 on its website. The 60-page report identified 1,326 AI-generated hateful posts targeting Muslims in India, published by 297 public accounts across X, Instagram and Facebook between January 2024 and April 2025.
“That’s only a microcosm of what’s happening at a much larger scale across digital platforms in India,” Raqib Hameed Naik, founder and executive director of CSOH, told Nikkei Asia.
The report says that while activity was minimal in 2023, it spiked sharply in mid-2024 — a surge the study links to the growing accessibility of Artificial intelligence tools, such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E.