{"id":23911,"date":"2024-01-28T01:52:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/taylor-swifts-name-not-searchable-on-x-days-after-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-go-viral\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T01:52:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T20:22:22","slug":"taylor-swifts-name-not-searchable-on-x-days-after-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/taylor-swifts-name-not-searchable-on-x-days-after-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-go-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s name not searchable on X days after sexually explicit deepfakes go viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Social media users may have noticed Saturday that they cannot search Taylor Swift\u2019s name on X, days after nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes\u00a0of the pop star went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Whenever Swift\u2019s name was typed into the search box on X, the message \u201cSomething went wrong. Try reloading\u201d would appear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NBC News has reached out to X for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This comes after deepfakes portraying Swift nude and in sexual scenarios\u00a0were circulated on X Wednesday. The images can be created using artificial intelligence tools that develop new, fake images, or by taking a real photo and \u201cundressing\u201d it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x styles_noCaption__KOOim\"><picture class=\"styles_image__1qciH\" data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-01\/240127-taylor-swift-x-ew-122p-364b90.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-01\/240127-taylor-swift-x-ew-122p-364b90.jpg 1x\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-01\/240127-taylor-swift-x-ew-122p-364b90.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-01\/240127-taylor-swift-x-ew-122p-364b90.jpg 1x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-01\/240127-taylor-swift-x-ew-122p-364b90.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"554\" width=\"783\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption styles_caption__Pe5JC\" data-testid=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption__source\" data-testid=\"caption__source\">via X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s not clear where the images originated, but they included a watermark that suggests they came from a website that is known for publishing fake nude images of celebrities. The website has a section dedicated to \u201cAI deepfake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The photos were viewed more than 27 million times and had more than 260,000 likes in 19 hours before the account that posted them was suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Many of Swift\u2019s fans said the deepfakes were removed because of a mass-reporting campaign. X has been called out in the past for its failure to quickly address sexually explicit deepfakes that pop up on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The singer\u2019s fans flooded the hashtag \u201cTaylor Swift AI\u201d with positive messages about her, according to an analysis performed by Blackbird.AI, a firm that works to protect organizations from narrative-driven online attacks using AI technology. The hashtag \u201cProtect Taylor Swift\u201d also began to trend on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some users celebrated Swift\u2019s name being removed from X\u2019s search function. One user wrote that it was the \u201cfirst step done to safeguard her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cNow stop searching taylor swift ai photos. That AI creator will go to hell. We have got ur back Tay,\u201d the user posted Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cYou can\u2019t search Taylor swift on Twitter anymore kinda happy and sad at the same time,\u201d another posted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline-contributors articleBylineContainer\">\n<div class=\"expanded-byline article-expanded-byline\" data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\"><span class=\"byline-thumbnail byline-thumbnail--no-image expanded-byline__thumbnail\" data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"\/><span class=\"byline-name expanded-byline__name\" data-testid=\"byline-name\">Minyvonne Burke<\/span><span class=\"byline-social expanded-byline__social\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minyvonneb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"byline-social--link\"><span class=\"icon icon-twitter\"\/><\/a><span class=\"icon icon-email\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline__bio-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"byline-bio expanded-byline__bio\">Minyvonne Burke\u00a0is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kat Tenbarge<!-- --> <!-- -->contributed<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Social media users may have noticed Saturday that they cannot search Taylor Swift\u2019s name on X, days after nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes\u00a0of the pop star went viral. Whenever Swift\u2019s name was typed into the search box on X, the message \u201cSomething went wrong. Try reloading\u201d would appear. NBC News has reached out to X &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}