AI-Generated Taylor Swift Deepfakes Reach 47M Views Before Removal
Non-consensual sexual deepfake images of Taylor Swift spread on X (formerly Twitter) for ~17 hours and amassed 47 million views before the platform took emergency action.
On 24 January 2024, AI-generated non-consensual sexual deepfake images of Taylor Swift began circulating on X. The most-shared post accumulated over 47 million views and 24,000 reposts during the roughly 17 hours before X took it down. X subsequently disabled all search results for 'Taylor Swift' for two days as an emergency measure. The Microsoft Designer text-to-image system was identified as the likely source after 404 Media traced the images to a 4chan thread that exploited a Designer prompt-filter bypass; Microsoft confirmed and patched the bypass on 26 January. The incident accelerated the introduction of the U.S. DEFIANCE Act (S.3696) — civil cause of action for non-consensual intimate deepfake victims — and prompted X's eventual policy update on AI-generated synthetic media in May 2024.
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