01/26/2024

Explicit AI-created Images of Taylor Swift Flood the Internet

The incident serves as a warning if AI remains unchecked

Taylor Swift has stared down record labels and fought for ownership of her music. She’s racked up Grammy Awards and led the world’s first billion-dollar tour.

But overnight, her power was punctured in the crudest, most depressingly familiar way possible for a woman: through deepfake pornography.

The crude images, which Fast Company is choosing not to show or link to, depict various AI-generated sexual acts. One account that posted the images was live for nearly a day before being banned, at which point the images had been seen more than 45 million times. Swift’s representatives did not respond to Fast Company’s request for comment.

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