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AI Incidents

Significant Increase in Deepfake Nudes of Taylor Swift Circulating on Social Media

January 24, 2024

AI-generated sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift circulated on X, garnering over 45 million views before removal. Originating from a Telegram group, these deepfakes challenge content moderation, as X's policies against synthetic media and nonconsensual nudity were violated.
Alleged deployer
users-in-a-telegram-group, users-on-x
Alleged developer
microsoft-designer, various-ai-image-generators
Alleged harmed parties
taylor-swift, general-public

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/632

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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