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Breaking News; Taylor Swift at war with tech bosses after AI images of her in intimate positions viewed millions of times online
Taylor’s fight has gone global, with US President Joe Biden’s press secretary calling on social media bosses to clamp down on the spread of these kinds of images
TAYLOR SWIFT is fighting back after explicit fake pictures of her were posted online – and the gloves are well and truly off.
The American superstar is currently waging war on social media bosses after truly grim AI-created images of her in intimate positions were shared on social media.
Taylor Swift is currently waging war on social media bosses after AI-created images of her in intimate positions were sharedCredit: Getty
One of the deepfake pics was viewed 47million times on X/Twitter before it was removed.
To put that into context, that’s like the entire population of Spain seeing completely fake, but still absolutely mortifying, pictures of you.
I’d want to crawl into a hole if that was me. But luckily Taylor has more guts, and more money, to try to stop them spreading.
She has so far managed to get X — which has been accused of inadequately policing content since billionaire Elon Musk took it over — to remove the ability for people to search her name.
But because of the exhaustive scope of the internet, the sick shots are still popping up on other social media apps owned by another billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg.
Taylor’s fight has gone global, with US President Joe Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre calling on social media bosses to clamp down on the spread of these kinds of fake images.
Sophie Campbell-Adams, from leading criminal defence law firm Britton & Time, told me it was not just Taylor at risk, but every famous face.