City Council meeting in Oregon infiltrated by AI-generated bots spewing hate speech, racial slurs and profanity leaves viewers stunned as Jewish Mayor defends town saying this is ‘not the heartbeat of the community’

An Oregon city council meeting was allegedly overrun by several AI-generated speaker bots spewing hate and racist remarks toward their Jewish mayor.

At the Beaverton City Council virtual meeting on Oct. 3, more than a dozen callers began spewing racist, bigoted and conspiratorial views toward members, forcing Mayor Lacey Beaty to quickly cut them off.

After in-person testimony, the board soon began hearing from everyone who signed up for online testimony and many of those with the same introduction of, ‘Hello, can you hear me?’

Soon enough, the first speaker launched into an anti-Semitic rant, which Beaty interrupted and stopped.

The exact insults were redacted from a public video of the meeting uploaded to the council’s website.

A virtual Beaverton City Council meeting was inundated with callers spouting racist, bigoted and conspiratorial views toward members

Subsequent callers’ comments became more viscous and vile and were filled with racist, homophobic, xenophobic and misogynistic views. One caller also dropped the n-word before being immediately hung up on.

As Beaty continued to silence those callers, other council members looked at each other in shock and amusement at the unfolding incident.

These callers’ names were the same as ordinary people’s names to avoid any suspicion. Many of them also continued to cite their First Amendment rights.

Mayor Beaty tells KOIN.com: “At first I just felt like, ‘Oh, that’s weird, we got a lot of online comments that were almost proportional to what was in the room.’

‘And as soon as I started naming names, the first speaker out of the gate started naming members of the Jewish community and leadership, I immediately knew where it was going to go.

“I looked at the rest of the names trying to figure out if it was a one-off or if everyone in the Zoom line would espouse similar sentiments, and once it went from names to something horrible, I just cut them off.” ‘

She told The Oregonian/OregonLive: ‘It’s my feeling that it was one person who signed in with AI. I know this is not the heartbeat of our community.’

Beaty also said that there were clues that someone was using AI and they pre-recorded the comments.

She heard one caller’s voice suddenly become robotic and they started talking at triple the normal speed.

These callers’ names were the same as ordinary people’s names to avoid any suspicion. Many of them also continued to cite their First Amendment rights

Several children and teenagers were also present in the meeting, and many looked to Beavy to take action.

‘What you can’t see from the clip is that we had young people in the audience who were there to get a walk and ride proclamation that I was putting out, and there were kids from my daughter’s school in the heard, because it was happening.

“I really made a good decision, not only as the mayor but as a mother, looking out into the audience and hearing people gasp and seeing the young kids looking at me and expecting me to do something ,” she said.

DailyMail.com reached out to the council for comment, but they were unavailable.

The council later released a statement on their Facebook expressing their ‘deepest empathy’ and standing against such intolerance.

“We want to acknowledge that the October 3 city council meeting was targeted by those who want to spread hateful and hurtful speech. We extend our deepest condolences to anyone who witnessed this display of bigotry and reaffirm our commitment to maintaining safe and welcoming environments for all who choose to call our community home.

As Beaty continued to silence those callers, other council members looked at each other in shock and amusement at what was unfolding

“We stand united against acts of intolerance of any kind towards the valued members of our community who make us stronger together.

‘While we cannot prevent behavior of this kind from happening again in the future, we will do our best to improve processes to remain prepared. We ask that you continue to participate in your local government on issues that are important to you and support each other during this time.’

While the council is unsure whether these callers were AI bots or real people, Beaty contacted other mayors to find out if this had happened to them. She discovered that such incidents mostly occur in cities with female mayors.

The next council meeting is planned for October 17 without any restrictions. No group or individual has claimed responsibility for this event.