New York CNN —Searching for Taylor Swift on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed an error message Saturday after pornographic, AI-generated images of the singer were circulated across social media last week.
X’s search function only displays results for Swift under its “Media” and “List” tabs.
Inputting “Taylor Swift” with quotation marks, as well as “Taylor AND Swift” yield normal search results under all of X’s search function tabs.
The search function error message does not appear on either Instagram or Reddit.
Digitally manipulated pornographic images of celebrities are nothing new on the internet, and have been circulating online since the advent of software like Photoshop.
Persons:
Taylor Swift, Swift, Inputting “ Taylor Swift, “ Taylor, Dr, Raymond González
Organizations:
New, New York CNN, Twitter, Swift, CNN
Locations:
New York, United States, Jersey