Anyone currently on platform X (formerly Twitter). Taylor Swift If you try to search, you get an error message: “Something went wrong. Try loading it again.”
However, reloading doesn’t change anything. X is looking for the US pop star intentionally stopped. According to X, the reason for this is the nude images generated using artificial intelligence by Swift.
It was not possible to stop the deepfakes – so the search for the 34-year-old singer was blocked instead. One of the fake nude pictures, before it was deleted on Thursday, was Viewed 47 million times been. According to US media, it was online for around 17 hours.
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Numerous accounts that had shared deepfake nude photos of Swift were discovered in the previous week reported and blocked. The images were still found.
“Temporary measure”
On Sunday, X finally announced that Swift could no longer be searched for because of the nude photos. “It is about a temporary measure“This is being carried out with the utmost caution as we prioritize security in this matter,” Reuters quoted X’s Head of Business Operations, Joe Benarroch, as saying.
As the “Handelsblatt” reports, the stopped search is also a reaction to one Flut an Postings der “Swifties” said fans of the pop star. They posted an enormous number of real pictures of the pop star and urged X to take action.
Nudity without consent
Without mentioning Swift by name, There is a zero-tolerance policy.
Activists and regulators fear that easy-to-use AI tools uncontrollable flood of fake and harmful content could result. Deepfakes are a technology in which the faces of real people are inserted into photos or films using artificial intelligence.
According to analysts, X is one of the platforms with the most pornographic content in the world. The guidelines for nudity are less strict than those of the social media services Facebook or Instagram operated by Meta.