US President Joe Biden's spokesman said fake and sexually explicit photos of Taylor Swift circulating online were “deeply troubling”.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday that social media companies “have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules,” as she urged. Congress To legislate in this regard.
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Reality Defender, a group that detects deepfakes, said it tracked a deluge of non-consensual pornography featuring Swift in particular on X, but also on owned by Meta. Facebook And other social media platforms.
The researchers found several dozen different images generated by artificial intelligence. The most widely shared images were football-related, showing Swift drawn or bloodied, objectifying her and, in some cases, violently damaging the fake version of herself.
Ms. Jean-Pierre said: “We will do our best to deal with this issue.
Taylor Swift, right, supports boyfriend Travis Kelce at a Kansas City Chiefs game last week PIC: AP
“So, while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content moderation, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual intimate images of real people.”
The spokesperson also added that lax enforcement of the law against false images often disproportionately affects women.
The number of explicit deepfakes has increased in recent years, as the technology used to produce such images has become more accessible and easier to use, researchers said.
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In 2019, a report by AI firm DeepTrace Labs found that explicit images were widely used as a weapon against women.
The report said that most of the victims were Hollywood actors and South Korean pop singers.
X wrote in a post on the site on Friday that they are “actively working to remove all identified images and take appropriate action against the accounts responsible for publishing them.”
“We are closely monitoring the situation to ensure any further violations are immediately addressed and the content removed.”
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Meanwhile, Meta said in a statement that it strongly condemns “the content that appeared across various Internet services” and worked to remove it.
“We continue to monitor our platforms for this violating content and will take appropriate action as needed,” the company said.
Taylor Swift's representatives did not respond to Sky News' request for comment.
