Ever since Taylor Swift began dating Kansas City Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce, she’s been getting a lot more attention from men who otherwise would not have had any interest in her. Unfortunately, that led to a pretty disgusting situation this week as sexually explicit AI-generated images of the pop star began to circulate on social media, many of which were related to her relationship with Kelce and her newfound Chiefs fandom.
The photos began to circulate on X, the social media platform that was formerly known as Twitter, prompting the platform to remove the posts and temporarily restrict users from searching for things like “Taylor Swift” and “Taylor Swift AI.”
The disgusting incident became such a prominent story that the White House actually addressed it at a recent press conference with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declaring that Joe Biden supports legislation to prevent this from happening. She also called on social media platforms to do a better job of policing their content.
“It is alarming,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “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.”
All in all, it was pretty horrible and disgusting news, and it generated a lot of conversation on social media.
After abhorrent deepfakes of Taylor Swift, there’s no excuse for inaction. Commonsense steps to safeguard against AI abuses—in my bipartisan legislative framework—can help protect all of us. We’re all at risk. https://t.co/QRAJIfiXBG
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) January 28, 2024
these taylor swift AI pictures is proof that all men should start their lives in jail and have to prove they’re a good person to get out
— lucy ⸆⸉ 🪐 (@lucysreputation) January 25, 2024
a message to people searching taylor swift ai pic.twitter.com/jWDBd3dF4Z
— superstar (@smgcrumbs) January 25, 2024
SAG-AFTRA issues statement regarding sexually explicit Taylor Swift AI images:
“The development and dissemination of fake images – especially those of a lewd nature – without someone's consent must be made illegal. As a society, we have it in our power to control these… pic.twitter.com/uzDPriYAha
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 26, 2024
All these tweets like “if Taylor Swift gets rid of AI I will love her forever” like first of all why does every problem in the world fall on her shoulders and second, no you won’t, you’ll find something else about her to complain about by next week
— me (@oIdcardlgan) January 26, 2024
https://twitter.com/amy_ah11/status/1751300101438349406?s=20
We’ll have to see how issues like this are prevented in the future.
