India, July 10 -- A series of TikTok videos showing an unemployed Canadian man complaining about job-stealing immigrants were actually generated using AI, an investigation by CBC News Visual Investigations team has found. The TikTok videos showed a white man ranting against Indians, claiming he could not land a job anywhere because Indians had taken them all.

CBC News found that the man never existed. Instead, he was created with AI by an artificial intelligence firm called Nexa.

TikTok has since taken the videos down. The short form video-sharing platform said the videos violated its community guidelines because it was not clear that they were made using AI.

The viral TikTok videos featured a white man named Josh, who appears to be in...