One Nation’s AI video is vile and tired – but the ensloppification of Australian politics doesn’t stop there

<p>The inflammatory clip shows the wild west of online politicking created by unrestricted access to AI – and why watchdogs need more powers to do something about it</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">new political email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>One Nation’s new AI-generated campaign video is a new low – even for them.</p><p>The video – reportedly played <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/03/one-nation-victoria-campaign-launch-abolish-first-nations-treaty-legalise-pepper-spray-ntwnfb">at the party’s Victorian campaign launch</a> over the weekend – is an AI-generated collection of racist tropes, depicting a man who appears to be African brandishing a machete, an apparently Middle Eastern man with an explosive vest, a south Asian man in a turban talking about “mass migration” and an Indigenous elder talking about people receiving “money … on the basis of need, not identity”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/09/one-nations-ai-video-is-vile-and-tired-but-the-ensloppification-of-australian-politics-doesnt-stop-there-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>