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Elon Musk may be about to face the wrath of Swifties.
Taylor Swift fans are venting their fury on Musk’s social media platform, X, after graphic AI-generated images of the pop superstar went viral on the site.
One post, which was uploaded by a user who had paid for X’s blue check, attracted more than 45 million views and 24,000 reposts before it was finally deleted 17 hours later. The edge reported.
Unsurprisingly, Swift’s fans are angry and have begun flooding the hashtags used to spread the images. videos of the singer performing and call to get”protect taylor swift” trend on the site.
X appeared to acknowledge the spread of the graphic images in a company publication. “Security” account early Friday, saying it was working to remove the images and “closely monitor” the situation.
“Posting non-consensual nudity (NCN) images is strictly prohibited on X and we have a zero-tolerance policy towards such content. Our teams are actively removing all identified images and taking appropriate action against the accounts responsible for posting them,” says the publication. read.
Despite this, some images still appear to be circulating on the site. a report of 404 Media discovered that the images were migrating to X from a channel on the messaging app Telegram dedicated to using artificial intelligence to create abusive images of women.
Since Musk took over the site formerly known as Twitter in 2022, he has largely gutted the platform. content moderation teamraising fears that X lacks the capacity to deal with disinformation or explicit material that spreads rapidly.
Users of the site have complained that very graphic content has circulated freely on the site, including videos of gang executions and links to applications that create Non-consensual nude images. of women “undressing” them with AI.
The increasing availability of AI image generators has raised concerns that they could be used to create “deepfake” nude images of women.
A report by a UK charity last year found that some children were using technology in British schools to create indecent images from fellow students, and a case in Spain sparked national outrage after explicit AI-generated images of around 20 teenage schoolgirls began spreading on social media.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside of normal business hours.