U.S. singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs during her The Eras Tour concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Aug. 7, 2023.
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Social media users could have noticed Saturday that they can’t search Taylor Swift’s name on X, days after nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes of the pop star went viral.
Every time Swift’s name was typed into the search box on X, the message “Something went improper. Try reloading” would seem.
NBC News has reached out to X for comment.
This comes after deepfakes portraying Swift nude and in sexual scenarios were circulated on X Wednesday. The pictures may be created using artificial intelligence tools that develop recent, fake images, or by taking an actual photo and “undressing” it.
It’s not clear where the pictures originated, but they included a watermark that means they got here from a web site that is understood for publishing fake nude images of celebrities. The web site has a bit dedicated to “AI deepfake.”
The photos were viewed greater than 27 million times and had greater than 260,000 likes in 19 hours before the account that posted them was suspended.
A lot of Swift’s fans said the deepfakes were removed due to a mass-reporting campaign. X has been called out up to now for its failure to quickly address sexually explicit deepfakes that pop up on the positioning.
The singer’s fans flooded the hashtag “Taylor Swift AI” with positive messages about her, in line with an evaluation performed by Blackbird.AI, a firm that works to guard organizations from narrative-driven online attacks using AI technology. The hashtag “Protect Taylor Swift” also began to trend on X.
Some users celebrated Swift’s name being faraway from X’s search function. One user wrote that it was the “first step done to safeguard her.”
“Now stop searching taylor swift ai photos. That AI creator will go to hell. We’ve got ur back Tay,” the user posted Saturday.
“You may’t search Taylor swift on Twitter anymore kinda blissful and sad at the identical time,” one other posted.