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X appears to have blocked searches for Taylor Swift as a reaction to a recent trend of graphic AI fakes of the world-famous recording artist being posted to the site<\/a>. Right now, if you search \u201cTaylor Swift\u201d or \u201cTaylor Swift AI\u201d on X, formerly Twitter, you may see a \u201cSomething went wrong\u201d message. After Platformer<\/em>\u2019s Casey Newton posted<\/a> about the apparent block, we tried some other searches. If X is intentionally blocking searches for illicit AI-generated images of Swift, it doesn\u2019t seem to have gotten very far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That\u2019s because if you run into a blocked search term and decide to put the barest amount of effort into trying something else, you\u2019ll get around it. \u201cTaylor AI Swift\u201d or simply putting quotation marks around her name both returned results as of this writing, for example. Even tacking another word onto one of the seemingly blocked search terms gets results. What\u2019s more, while the posts may or may not be blocked from search, the media associated with them clearly isn\u2019t \u2014 clicking on the Media tab reveals plenty of images. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reports have said that Swift is considering legal action<\/a> against the sites hosting the images, which users said they preferred Microsoft Designer to make. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the deepfakes \u201calarming and terrible\u201d in an interview with NBC Nightly News<\/em><\/a> <\/em>yesterday, and said he believes AI companies need to \u201cmove fast\u201d to get better guardrails in place. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n