Fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift likely generated by artificial intelligence spread rapidly across social media platforms this week, disturbing fans who saw them and reigniting calls from lawmakers to protect women and crack down on the platforms and technology that spread such images.
X suspended several accounts that posted the faked images of Ms.
Swift, but the images were shared on other social media platforms and continued to spread despite those companies’ efforts to remove them.
While X said it was working to remove the images, fans of the pop superstar flooded the platform in protest.
They posted related keywords, along with the sentence “Protect Taylor Swift,” in an effort to drown out the explicit images and make them more difficult to find.
Persons:
Taylor Swift, X, Swift, Ben Colman
Organizations:
Twitter