Following the global success of s**ual photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) on social media, pop sensation Taylor Swift has been barred from searches on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, an official said on Sunday.
As of Sunday night, the error message “Something went wrong” appeared when someone searched for “Taylor Swift” on the social media network. Try loading again.
Head of Business Operations at X, Joe Benarroch, verified the relocation to The Hill. Benarroch stated in a statement on Sunday that the action was “temporary” and “done with an abundance of caution as we prioritize safety on this issue.”
Last week, fake, s**ually suggestive pictures of Swift went viral on the internet. Fans responded by flooding the site with positive pictures of the singer along with the slogan #ProtectTaylorSwift.
Mason Allen, head of growth at Reality Defender, told The Associated Press that the organization’s deepfake detection program tracked a number of nonconsensual s**ual images of Swift that had amassed “millions and millions” of views before being removed.
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Although some were discovered on Facebook, which is owned by Meta, and other social networking sites, the news wire stated that the majority of the photographs were located on X. The White House stated last week that the spread of Swift’s s**ual AI-generated content, or “deepfakes,” was “alarming.”
Karine Jean-Pierre, the organization’s press secretary, told reporters last Friday, “While social media companies make their own independent decisions regarding content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people.”
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Discussions resurfaced on social media platforms regarding the dangers associated with AI-generated content, and federal legislators reaffirmed their calls for stricter enforcement of regulations pertaining to deepfakes.
In the wake of the incident, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged for additional “guardrails” regarding AI. President Biden issued a comprehensive executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) in October, which aimed to address the emerging technology’s safety and privacy concerns.