TAYLOR SWIFT is fighting back after explicit fake pictures of her were posted online – and the gloves are well and truly off.
The American superstar, is currently waging war on social media bosses after truly grim AI-created images off her in intimate positions were shared on social media.
One of the deepfake pics was viewed 47million times on X/Twitter before it was removed.
To put that into context, that’s like the entire population of Spain seeing completely fake, but still absolutely mortifying, pictures of you.
I’d want to crawl into a hole if that was me. But luckily Taylor has more guts, and more money, to try to stop them spreading.
She has so far managed to get X — which has been accused of inadequately policing content since billionaire Elon Musk took it over — to remove the ability for people to search her name.
But because of the exhaustive scope of the internet, the sick shots are still popping up all over other social media apps such as Mark Zuckerberg‘s Facebook.
Her fight has gone global, with US President Joe Biden‘s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre calling on social media bosses to clamp down on the spread of these kinds of images.
Sophie Campbell-Adams, director of leading criminal defence law firm Britton & Time, told me it wasn’t just Taylor at risk, but every famous face.
She said: “The malicious use of deepfakes poses profound threats”. Too right it does.
“I hope that whatever Taylor does to shut this down will inspire a sea of change, not only across the music industry but in society as a whole.
Online bullying is rife in schools, but how long will it be before the tech is so easy to use that some grotty teenager with an axe to grind can torment someone they know with it?
Last night, X’s head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, said a block on searching for Taylor’s name was a “temporary action” to prioritise safety.
On Friday, the site said posting non-consensual nudity is “strictly prohibited”, adding: “We have a zero-tolerance policy towards such content.
“Our teams are removing all identified images and taking appropriate action against the accounts responsible.”
Taylor isn’t just fighting for the rich and famous here, she’s fighting for all of us.
And I’ll be first in line to cheer her when she wins.