A recent Taylor Swift AI controversy has brought new focus on the issue of ‘deepfake’ explicit photos of women, with pornographic images of the singer circulating widely on Twitter/X this week.
Th platform has rules against graphic media, but despite that the Taylor Swift AI photos – which showed the music star in a variety of sexually suggestive and explicit positions – remained on X for around 19 hours.
In that time, it’s believed that the explicit ‘photos’ of Taylor Swift amassed more than 27 million views. The account that originally shared the images was eventually suspended.
The most viewed and shared deepfakes of Swift portrayed her nude in a football stadium. The singer has faced a barrage of misogynistic attacks since she started to date Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce – attending NFL games to support her partner. Discussing the backlash, Swift said: “I have no awareness of it if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
Taylor Swift’s fans have since been flooding the platform with tweets that read: “Protect Taylor Swift”, presumably to make it harder to find any remaining versions of the images that might be circulating.
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