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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

If anyone can get the US government to take deepfake porn seriously, it’s Swifties

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‘If there is a silver lining to this sordid situation it is this: angry Swifties are a force to be reckoned with.’ Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Can Swifties be the force that finally stops deepfake porn?

Sexually explicit photographs of Taylor Swift are all over the internet. Except they are not actually pictures of Swift: they are deepfakes created with AI technology. Still, the fact they are computer generated doesn’t mean the photos don’t look horrifyingly realistic – and it certainly hasn’t stopped people from gawking at them. One of the images shared by a user on X (Twitter) was viewed more than 45m times in the 17 hours before it was taken down.

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