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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

So I wanted to do a little bit of a deeper dive update on a story that we talked about in last week's News Roundup.

Those awful AI faked images of Taylor Swift that were flooding social media last week and just generally get into some of the discourse happening around Taylor Swift online because I think it's really telling.

So we've talked about it on the show before,

but deep fakes are non-consensual, AI-generated, sexually explicit images, and they are a growing problem. According to research from independent analyst Genevieve-O., the number of new

pornographic deepfake videos has already surged more than ninefold since 2020. At the end of last year,

the top 10 sites offering this AI generated deepfake content hosted more than 114,000 videos,

and Tara Swift has always been a common target. In fact, on one of these AI platforms, she was the

first celebrity targeted for deep faked

AI images. And the reality is this is a gender justice issue. It's an issue that impacts

women. According to a study from Deep Trace Labs, 96% of deep fakes are non-consensual sexual

depictions of women. So we're calling these images deep fakes, which is not wrong,

but one technical thing that is important to understand about them is that we used to use the term

deep fakes to describe content where someone's head or was put on another person's body

to give the impression that that person is nude or doing something sexually explicit,

these Taylor Swift deep fakes are different in that they were created out of whole cloth

using commercial AI tools. The images originated on the alternative messaging platform

Telegram, then made their way to 4chan. This telegram group was actually kind of a marketplace for

celebrity deepfakes, where users were requesting and trading deep-faked images of specific

celebrities since last year. Now, most commercial AI image generators do have some safeguards

in place that are meant to prevent abuse. So if you ask AI to generate an image that depicts

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