Avariety of sexually inappropriate and offensive AI images of Taylor Swift are making the rounds on X, formerly Twitter, to the disgust of many people on the platform.
AI images are pictures generated through artificial intelligence software using a text prompt. This can be done without a person's consent. Users on the platform have raised fears about how easily AI can be used to post fake images, violating the subject's privacy. Some are also taking action to report the posts, or attempting to bury the issue as a trending topic.
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| Taylor Swift attends 'In Conversation With... Taylor Swift' during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 9, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario. AI-generated pictures of the singer are being shared online.. |
Among the AI images of Swift being shared are some of her posing inappropriately while at a Kansas City Chiefs game. She has attended several NFL matches this season amid her romance with Travis Kelce, the Chiefs' tight end. While Newsweek has seen the images, it is not sharing them to protect Swift's privacy. These AI images originated on the AI celebrity porn website Celeb Jihad on January 15. At the time of writing, they were still up.
On Monday, lewd AI images of Swift were posted by X account @FloridaPigMan. They have since been removed for violating the social media platform's rules. Another sexually explicit photo of Swift was posted on the website Rule 34 on November 21, 2023. At the time of writing, it remained online. AI pictures of Swift were also uploaded to the porn website Planet Suzy on December 7, 2023, which had not been removed at the time of writing.
In tweets seen by Newsweek, X user @Zvbear posted some of the AI images to his account.
"My Taylor post went viral and now everyone is posting it," he wrote in one post.
In another he said: "Bro what have I done... They might pass new laws because of my Taylor Swift post. If Netflix did a documentary about AI pics they'd put me in it as a villain. It's never been so over."
His tweets have since been protected and only approved followers can see them.
Newsweek contacted Swift's publicist, Elon Musk and X for comment via email Thursday, outside business hours. This article will be updated if a response is received.
People have taken to the social media platform to share their disgust over the images.
"whoever making those taylor swift ai pictures going to heII," one person wrote on X.
"Who ever is making those Taylor swift AI pictures you are a disgusting person," said another.
"Hoping to God she pulls a Cardi and sues everyone spreading them into homelessness," a third person wrote.
"the same men who call taylor swift mid are searching for taylor swift ai cause they can't see women successful but they enjoy them being degraded." another person wrote, another person wrote, sharing a video of Swift's cameo in the "Three Sad Virgins" sketch for Saturday Night Live. "Anyways if they see this here's a song about your personality. Enjoy!"
Others have shown their support for Swift by trying to bury the "Taylor Swift AI" trending topic with unrelated posts. People are also reporting the images as soon as they see them, and have shared screenshots of them doing so.
"im gonna need the entirety of the adult swiftie community to log onto twitter, search the term 'taylor swift ai,' click the media tab, and report every single ai generated p0rnographic photo of taylor that they can see because im f****** done with this bs. elon get it together," one person wrote on X.
"Anyone else's notifications look like this, this morning? DO NOT engage with any tweets with Taylor swift AI beyond just reporting them pleeeeeease," another wrote, sharing a screenshot of them reporting the pictures.
"Just casually reporting taylor swift ai images at 2 AM while feeding my baby," someone else said.
Some have also expressed their concern for what this could mean for the future of AI and how it could be just the beginning of a worrying trend.
"I'm not going to share that Taylor Swift AI sickening 'sexy' post. But know that all it takes is one button click for any of us or our friends, family or children to be used in that way without our consent. Fight AI now before it's too late," one wrote.
Another X user echoed the sentiment when they posted: "With the Taylor Swift Ai pics I think it's clear that we need some kinda legislation or something against this s***. It's easy to tell it's Ai right now because it's mainly used for ridiculous s***, but it's just gonna get harder and harder to tell with time. F****** bleak."
Unfortunately, the legal system has not caught up with this surfacing threat—but that could eventually change. On Tuesday two lawmakers reintroduced a bill that would make the non-consensual sharing of digitally altered pornographic images a federal crime.
Representative Joseph Morelle first authored the "Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act" in May 2023, which he said at the time was created "to protect the right to privacy online amid a rise of artificial intelligence and digitally-manipulated content."
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