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After a world tour that filled stadiums, the singer Taylor Swift is back in the headlines, but for less noble reasons: fake images of the singer, generated by artificial intelligence, were published on X (Twitter) and seen by millions of users, even causing the search for the artist's name on the social network to be banned . Find out more about the case now.
Understand the case of fake images of Taylor Swift
In recent days, fake images of Taylor Swift — generated by AI — with explicit content have been circulating on X, another example of the constant wave of pornography generated by technology, in addition to the difficulty in containing this by the platform's moderation.
One of the most viewed posts, which was up for a total of 17 hours, received 45 million views, 24 shares and hundreds of thousands of likes before being taken down and its user — who is verified on the platform — having your account suspended for violating the rules of the X.
But this did not contain the storm of fake images of the singer, which continued to circulate on the social network through posts on other accounts, many of which are still available for viewing. As a result, the subject “Taylor Swift AI” jumped to the top of the list of most searched terms, which further boosted these false posts about the artist.
According to the website 404 Media, the fake images of Taylor Swift may have been created by users of a Telegram group where images of explicit content involving women created by Microsoft Designer are shared daily. Members of the group apparently loved the fact that the images ended up on social media, making light of what happened.
The website stated that the system flaws in the AI image creation mechanism that served as a gateway for fraudulent images have been corrected, which was confirmed by the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Leader at Microsoft, Sarah Bird. She says that the investigation into the matter will continue and that the tool's security systems will be reinforced to prevent it from being used again to generate images like Taylor's.
What is X doing about it?
Now at X, there are rules and policies regarding artificial and manipulated images, in addition to non-consensual nudity that prohibit this type of social network-type content. Despite contact through journalism channels, the representatives of Taylor Swift and NFL, the American football league in which her boyfriend Swift, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who will play in the Super Bowl next Sunday, declined to comment on the matter.
In response to incidents with Swift, X published a note saying that there is zero tolerance in these cases of image abuse and that the social network's teams are actively working to curb this type of behavior among its users. Even so, this did not serve as an excuse for the singer's millions of fans around the world, who fiercely criticized X for leaving the false posts up for so long.
To try to take down the problematic hashtags, these fans began posting real videos of Taylor coming forward in an attempt to cover up the many fakes that are still available for public viewing.
Moderation in X is decreasing
Despite the many obstacles that seek to prevent images like Taylor's from being created by AI tools, the challenge of completely preventing this from happening is difficult to overcome, even more so with the slow and unsuccessful responses of social networks like X, whose moderation team has been reduced since its acquisition by Musk.
In Europe, X is under investigation regarding its use to spread disinformation and illegal content and has been questioned about efforts to remove false information regarding the conflict between Israel and Hamas from the platform that have been found in recent months.
Until there is an ideal solution to this serious problem of privacy and individual image, you can't be too careful when posting photos and videos on social media, folks!
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