Australia’s far right is using bizarre AI images to promote a white nationalist celebration

Australia Day has come and gone, but the far right is still celebrating.

A campaign launched by a Proud Boy to expand the already controversial Australia Day festivities into a month-long celebration of white identity has failed to gain any mainstream momentum, but has found some support from Australian fringe and political figures.

Australian online verification group RMIT CrossCheck has identified that one of the ways that “Australia Month” is being promoted is through the use of AI-generated, surreal and ultra-nationalistic images of white people saluting in Australiana settings, complete with grotesque distortions like extra hands that are tell-tale signs of the involvement of artificial intelligence.