By Karen Rebelo In September this year, a handful of AI images showing men that appeared unmistakably Muslim, placing large rocks on railway tracks, cropped up on X and Facebook in India. Some of the posts, which featured these synthetic images, used the hashtag ‘rail jihad’ – a Hindutva right-wing conspiracy theory accusing Indian Muslims of sabotaging railway infrastructure to cause accidents resulting in mass casualties. A deep dive by Decode found that Meta AI’s text-to-image generation feature is being weaponised to create harmful AI images targeting Muslims in India by reinforcing negati…