Deepfake Images of Taylor Swift Spark Outrage and Calls for Stricter Regulations

Swift's Fans, the Screen Actors Guild, and the White House Respond to the Spread of Explicit AI-Generated Images

Sexually explicit and violent deepfake images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on social media platform X, reaching millions of users before being taken down.
Swift's fanbase, known as 'Swifties', launched a counteroffensive, flooding social media with positive images of the pop star and reporting accounts sharing the deepfakes.
The Screen Actors Guild and the White House have both released statements on the issue, calling the images deeply concerning and urging for stricter regulations on deepfake content.
The deepfake-detecting group Reality Defender believes the images were created by diffusion models, a type of generative artificial intelligence model.
Microsoft, which offers an image-generator based partly on a diffusion model, is investigating whether its tool was misused in the creation of the deepfakes.