Finally, the “Wednesday” actress has had enough, and presently she is off X.
AI celebrity nudes
Just this year Taylor Swift had to contend with the same type of intrusion into her personal life and space when explicit photos of her were leaked first onto 4chan and then X. Before the offending fakes were removed one post was reported to have been seen over 47 million times.
In Swift’s case it seems the generation of the AI photos came from a “challenge.”
The Swift images were traced to having begun at 4chan, where users created images of the mega-popular pop star as a game to see who could bypass established measures set by AI-powered image generators. The restrictions were set to keep users doing exactly what these users ended up doing.
In more, yet benign deep fake news involving Taylor Swift’s likeness, at the beginning of this year an AI-generated video featuring the likeness of Taylor Swift was used to endorse a made-up cookware giveaway. And presently there is a controversy over pictures of Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing Donald Trump.
Trump declared across X and other media that he doesn’t have any knowledge of what this fake endorsement is about.
So many pictures, so many lies
As reported here, NSFW images, revenge porn, and surely AI deep fakes are posted with unabashed regularity. And celebrities, sport stars, politicians, and even reality TV stars can as much find themselves the victims of personal intrusions whether accosted by a fan on the street or someone rendering a fake nude of them. And unfortunately, according to this report “Deepfake images that graft a child’s face onto sexually explicit material are easily found in top image search results on leading search engines and mainstream social media platforms despite a U.S. law appearing to ban such material.”
