Congresswoman Yvette Clarke voices her concern over women being targets of deepfakes for years amid Travis Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift’s AI n**des saga

Taylor Swift's AI deepfake became a national talking point because of its obscene and explicit nature.

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke voices her concern over women being targets of deepfakes for years amid Travis Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift’s AI n**des saga

Taylor Swift, left, and Travis Kelce leave after the Buffalo Bills defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 20-17, on Dec. 10, 2023, at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. (Image via IMAGO)

Even Taylor Swift isn’t safe from the whims of the ‘AI Deepfake.’ For the last few days, several deeply offensively edited photos of the Grammy-winning pop star have been circulating on various social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter).

One of the most shared images received more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts, and thousands of reshares and bookmarks just 17 hours after its upload. After receiving complaints about the edited picture was removed by the platform.

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X (formerly Twitter), in a statement, revealed that they are actively working to remove all the images from their database.

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Our teams are actively removing all identified images and taking appropriate actions against the accounts responsible for posting them. We're closely monitoring the situation to ensure that any further violations are immediately addressed.
X as per CBS News.

US Representative and Vice Chair of The Black Caucus, Yvette D. Clarke, believes that ‘Women’ have been the targets of many morphed pictures and videos for some time. Taylor Swift, being one of the victims, proves that proper steps should be taken to put an end to it.

Clarke sent out a tweet to reach the ‘swifties’ so that they could help erase the deepfake conundrum.

What’s happened to Taylor Swift is nothing new. For years, women have been targets of deepfakes without their consent. And with advancements in AI, creating deep fakes is easier and cheaper. This is an issue both sides of the aisle and even Swifties should be able to come together to solve.

Taylor Swift’s AI Deepfake caused a massive stir

AI experts concluded that the images in question are not exactly ‘deepfakes’ if one goes by the original definition of the word. It usually means images or videos created using adversarial networks that morph on one face and are replaced on another body. Basically, the images that leaked on X are not cropped photos with image editors; rather, they were recreated from scratch using AI tools.

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke voices her concern over women being targets of deepfakes for years amid Travis Kelce's girlfriend Taylor Swift's AI n**des saga
Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Image via IMAGO)

The Daily Mail reported that Swift was considering taking legal action against the creators of the images and even against the AI app used for the generation of explicit photos.

Whether or not legal action will be taken is being decided, but there is one thing that is clear: these fake, AI-generated images are abusive, offensive, exploitative, and done without Taylor’s consent and/or knowledge.
an insider told the Daily Mail

The news about Swift’s AI image reached even the US government’s ears as well. On Friday, the White House issued a statement. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a news briefing that they were keeping an eye on the “alarming” situation.

This is very alarming. While social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people.

The images may be fake, but the impact they leave when viewed definitely creates a bad impression of the targeted individual. As Clarke said, deep fakes of women are happening all over the digital world, which should be stopped at any cost.

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