X can’t cease unfold of specific, faux AI Taylor Swift photographs

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Express, faux AI-generated photographs sexualizing Taylor Swift started circulating on-line this week, shortly sparking mass outrage which will lastly power a mainstream reckoning with harms attributable to spreading non-consensual deepfake pornography.

All kinds of deepfakes focusing on Swift started spreading on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter, yesterday.

Ars discovered that some posts have been eliminated, whereas others stay on-line, as of this writing. One X put up was seen greater than 45 million occasions over roughly 17 hours earlier than it was eliminated, The Verge reported. Seemingly fueling extra unfold, X promoted these posts underneath the trending subject “Taylor Swift AI” in some areas, The Verge reported.