Taylor Swift’s Name No Longer Searchable on X After AI-Generated Explicit Photos Go Viral: https://t.co/Ir07ds3hf5
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Searching “Taylor Swift” on Twitter are yielding no results, this as the social media platform is no longer allowing any searches for the singer after AI nudes flooded the service earlier this week. The service also shows no results for “Taylor Swift nude” or “Taylor Swift AI” — the search terms widely used to find the images. But searches such as “Taylor Swift singer,” still yield results.
The move follows the White House weighing in on the controversy on Friday, urging Congress to “take legislative action.” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ABC News, “We are alarmed by the reports of the … circulation of images that you just laid out — of false images to be more exact, and it is alarming … While social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation, and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people.”
So far, Twitter/X boss Elon Musk has been silent on the issue.
Swift is considering legal action.
