Global pop superstar Taylor Swift has exploded in popularity and visibility among NFL fans over the past several months after she began dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. And this week, that popularity seemed to cause some problems for her as men and football fans began circulating sexually explicit AI-generated images of the pop star on social media, many of which were related to her Chiefs fandom and her relationship with Kelce. But it sounds like the Joe Biden and the White House are planning to take action.
During a press conference this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made it clear that United States President Joe Biden is committed to supporting legislation that would address the fake and abusive images and also wants social media platforms to do a better job of policing these things themselves.
“It is alarming,” Jean-Pierre told reporters according to Bloomberg. “So while social media companies make their own independent decisions about 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.”
Obviously, this is a strong stance for Biden and his administration to take on this issue, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media as a result.
Oh…ok…so high profile celebs CAN encourage the White House to action? Cause I could have sworn y'all told me- https://t.co/1Rl4X3uuUN
— Sailor Moon (@April_Le_) January 26, 2024
not to ever defend the biden administration but americans rly don't know what their own government is up to bc they've already been trying to address ai + privacy for several months before this, taylor swift didn't change their mind https://t.co/e8IKmpl2BF https://t.co/9LHv3VbDgq
— m (@samcentric) January 27, 2024
they talking about that man in the white house 😭😭 oh brother I’ve never seen a man more finished https://t.co/H9I8PmFKnG
— King Wow (@wowthatshiphop) January 26, 2024
This is good but I cant help but think about how Xochitl Gomez, a minor, said a couple weeks ago that authorities did nothing about AI csam being spread of her… https://t.co/w54w0UfqkN
— Ericka 🇵🇸🇸🇩 (@deviouslez) January 27, 2024
The US gov now involved??? There is no lawyer that can help that clown 😭 https://t.co/JCyUPj2Hxg
— Filet-O-Fish Social Club Founder (@casteeezy) January 26, 2024
Men are ontologically evil, this is both Big Tech's greatest asset and its fatal flaw https://t.co/QsWtWTdHCd
— Jane Austen Marxist (@Bad_bureaucrat) January 27, 2024
We’ll have to see what the White House chooses to do to combat this growing issue and how it is able to enforce the regulations.
