Sexually explicit AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift have been floating on X (previously Twitter) during the past day, highlighting the spread of AI-generated false pornography and the difficulty in preventing it from spreading.
Taylor Swift AI fakes spread like a wildfire!
One of the most popular instances on X had over 45 million views, 24,000 reposts, and hundreds of thousands of likes and bookmarks before the verified user who published the photographs got their account terminated for breaking platform policies. The message remained live on the site for around 17 hours before it was removed.
However, as people discussed the viral post, the photographs continued to spread and were published on other accounts. Many are still online, and a slew of new visual fakes have emerged. In other countries, the word “Taylor Swift AI” became a trending topic, bringing the photographs to a broader audience.
According to 404 Media, the photographs may have started in a Telegram channel where members trade sexual AI-generated images of women, which are commonly created using Microsoft Designer. Users in the group apparently laughed about Swift’s photographs becoming popular on X.
X’s regulations on synthetic and modified material, as well as non-consensual nudity, clearly prohibit the platform from hosting such content. X, Swift’s reps, and the NFL have not replied to our requests for comments.
Swift’s fan community has chastised X for letting many of the postings to stay active for so long. Fans have reacted by filling the hashtags used to spread the photographs with remarks promoting actual video of Swift performing in order to mask the graphic fakes.
Deepfake Dilemma: The Struggle to Ban AI-Generated Explicit Content
The event highlights the very real problem of banning deepfake pornography and AI-generated photos of actual people. Some AI picture generators have constraints in place that prohibit them from producing nude, pornographic, or photo-realistic photographs of celebrities, while many others do not openly provide such a service. The task of stopping bogus photos from spreading often falls on social platforms, which may be tough to achieve even under the best of circumstances, and much more so for a firm like X, which has hollowed down its moderating powers.
The EU is currently investigating the company for claims that it is being used to “disseminate illegal content and disinformation” and is reportedly being questioned about its crisis protocols after misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war was discovered to be promoted across the platform.
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