The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
For all the promise of the technology, one use-case for artificial intelligence reared its ugly head last week: non-consensual pornographic images. As millions of users saw abusive A.I. generated images of Taylor Swift proliferate across X, the pitfalls of this technology became clear.
Guest: Emanuel Maiberg, journalist and co-founder of 404 Media
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| 0:50.0 | A quick note before we get started, we're talking about non-consensual pornographic and |
| 0:56.2 | abusive material in this episode. |
| 0:58.7 | Listen or discretion is advised. |
| 1:00.7 | All right, here's a show. Taylor Swift trending on X is typically no big thing, but late last week, something more disturbing happened on the social media site. |
| 1:14.3 | Swift wasn't trending because of her Grammy nominations or because her boyfriend's headed to the |
| 1:19.3 | Super Bowl, nor was she going viral because of all those weird conspiracy theories coming from the right. |
| 1:25.0 | Let's just not talk about those at all, okay? |
| 1:28.0 | This time, the specific term going viral was Taylor Swift AI. That's because fake pornographic images of |
| 1:35.2 | Swift, ones that were artificially generated and quite obviously non-consensual |
| 1:39.8 | had flooded the site. By the time I found it, according to Twitter's own stats, |
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