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Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

Taylor Swift Is Living Every Woman’s AI Porn Nightmare

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

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I feel like I live on the Internet and I never see this shit. Either it doesn't exist or I exist on a completely different plane of the net.
- You ever somehow get invited to a party you'd usually never be at? With a crowd you.never ever see? This is that.
  
  You ever somehow get invited to a party you'd usually never be at? With a crowd you.never ever see?
  No?
  
  Why not just say "no, thank you" to such an invitation?
- On the Internet, censorship happens not by having too little information, but too much information in which it is difficult to find what you want.
  We all have only so much time to spend on the Internet and so necessarily get a filtered experience of everything that happens on the Internet.
  
  Are you saying that not being exposed to things you don't want is censorship?

I’ll wait for Taylor’s version.
- I wasn't expecting a joke this good. Thank you for that.

I wonder if this winds up with revenge porn no longer being a thing? Like, if someone leaks nudes of me I can just say it’s a deepfake?
Probably a lot of pain for women from mouth breathers before we get there from here .
- I mean, not much happened to protect women after The Fappening, and that happened to boatloads of famous women with lots of money, too.
  Arguably, not any billionaires, so we'll see I guess.
- This has already been a thing in courts with people saying that audio of them was generated using AI. It's here to stay, and almost nothing is going to be 'real' anymore unless you've seen it directly first-hand.
  
  first-hand.
  the first-hand in question:
  
  Thereby furthering erosion of our democracies and continuing the slide into Putin-confusion.
  
  We need trustworthy sources of news more than ever
- Why would it make revenge porn less of a thing? Why are so many people here convinced that as long people say it's "fake" it's not going to negatively affect them?
  The mouth breathers will never go away. They might even use the excuse the other way around, that because someone could say just about everything is fake, then it might be real and the victim might be lying. Remember that blurry pictures of bigfoot were enough to fool a lot of people.
  Hell, even others believe it is fake, wouldn't it still be humilliating?
  
  I think you're underestimating the potential effects of an entire society starting to distrust pictures/video. Yeah a blurry Bigfoot fooled an entire generation, but nowadays most people you talk to will say it's doctored. Scale that up to a point where literally anyone can make completely realistic pics/vids of anything in their imagination, and have it be indistinguishable from real life? I think there's a pretty good chance that "nope, that's a fake picture of me" will be a believable, no question response to just about anything. It's a problem
  
  The default assumption will be that a video is fake. In the very near future you will be able to say "voice assistant thing show me a video of that cute girl from the cafe today getting double teamed by robocop and an ewok wearing a tu-tu". It will be so trivial to create this stuff that the question will be "why were you watching a naughty video of me" rather than "omg I can't believe this naughty video of me exists".
- Australia's federal legislation making non-consensual sharing of intimate images an offense includes doctored or generated images because that's still extremely harmful to the victim and their reputation.
- Why do you think "there" is meaningfully different from "here"?
- A deep fake is still humiliating

Fake celebrity porn has existed since before photography, in the form of drawings and impersonators. At this point, if you're even somewhat young and good-looking (and sometimes even if you're not), the fake porn should be expected as part of the price you pay for fame. It isn't as though the sort of person who gets off on this cares whether the pictures are real or not—they just need them to be close enough that they can fool themselves.
Is it right? No, but it's the way the world is, because humans suck.
- Honestly, the way I look at it is that the real offense is publishing.
  While still creepy, it would be hard to condemn someone for making fakes for personal consumption. Making an AI fake is the high-tech equivalent of gluing a cutout of your crush's face onto a playboy centerfold. It's hard to want to prohibit people from pretending.
  But posting those fakes online is the high-tech, scaled-up version of xeroxing the playboy centerfold with your crush's face on it, and taping up copies all over town for everyone to see.
  Obviously, there's a clear line people should not cross, but it's clear that without laws to deter it, AI fakes are just going to circulate freely.
  
  AI fake is the high-tech equivalent of gluing a cutout of your crush’s face onto a playboy centerfold.
  At first I read that as "cousin's face" and I was like "bru, that's oddly specific." Lol
  
  Yup, it's all the more frustrating when you take into account that social media sites do have the capability to know if an image is NSFW, and if it matches the face of a celebrity. Knowing Taylors fan base, they are probably quickly reported.
  It's mainly twitter as well, and it's clear they are letting this go on to drum up controversy.
- Humans are horrible, but a main-stream social media platform should not be a celebration of it. People need to demand change and then leave if ignored. I seem to hear people demanding change. The next step has more impetus.

WHAT?? DISGUSTING! WHERE WOULD THESE JERKS PUT THIS ? WHAT SPECIFIC WEBSITE DO I NEED TO BOYCOTT?
- Google Search didn’t really turn up much, far less than if you were to search up something like ‘Nancy Pelosi nude’ even, it kind of seems overblown and the only reason it’s gotten any news is because of who it happened to. Just being famous nowadays seems like you’re just going to see photoshopped or deepfake porn of yourself spread all over the internet.
- Was this joke ever funny?
- Time and place. Don't be a creep.
  Yes I get the reference.
  
  Lol, seems like some people didn't get it.

Went to Bing and found "Taylor swift ai pictures" as a top search. LOTS of images of her being railed by Sesame Street characters
- Im gonna be real...
  When I stumbled upon (didn't go looking to be clear) her and Oscar the Grouch on a pile of trash... It sent me.
  I know the whole situation is gross but I couldn't stop laughing due to the sheer absurdity. Like... What???
- I guess you have safe search enabled
- Bing has been surprisingly decent over the last few years.

God what a garbage article:
On X—which used to be called Twitter before it was bought by billionaire edgelord Elon Musk
I mean, really? The guy makes my skin crawl, but what a hypocritically edgy comment to put into an article.
And then zero comment from Taylor Swift in it at all. She is basically just speaking for her. Not only that, but she anoints herself spokesperson for all women...while also pretty conspicuously ignoring that men can be victims of this too.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending non consensual ai porn in the least, and I assume the author and I are mostly in agreement about the need for something to be done about it.
But it's trashy politically charged and biased articles like this that make people take sides on things like this. Imo, the author is contributing to the problems of society she probably wants to fix.
- hypocritically edgy comment to put into an article.
  Its vice, their whole brand is edgy. Calling Elon an edgelord is very on brand for them.
  pretty conspicuously ignoring that men can be victims of this too.
  Sure, but women are disproportionately affected by this. You're making the "all lives matter" argument of AI porn
  make people take sides on things like this
  People should be taking sides on this.
  Just seems like you wanna get mad for no reason? I read the article, and it doesn't come across nearly as bad as you would lead anyone to believe. This article is about deepfake pornography as a whole, and how is can (and more importantly HAS) affected women, including minors. Sure it would have been nice to have a comment from Taylor, but i really don't think it was necessary.
  
  Its vice, their whole brand is edgy. Calling Elon an edgelord is very on brand for them.
  I've come across this source before and don't recall being so turned off by the tone. If this is on brand for them, then my criticism is not limited to the author.
  Sure, but women are disproportionately affected by this. You’re making the “all lives matter” argument of AI porn
  You have a point, but I disagree. Black lives matter is effectively saying that black lives currently don't matter (mainly when it comes to policing). All lives matter is being dismissive of that claim because no one really believes that white lives don't matter to police. Pointing to the fact that there are male victims too is not dismissive of the fact that women are the primary victims of this. It's almost the opposite and ignoring males is being dismissive of victims.
  People should be taking sides on this.
  Sorry, wasn't clear on that point. What I was saying here is this will make people take sides based on their politics rather than on the merits of whether it's wrong in and of itself.
  i really don’t think it was necessary.
  Neither was her speaking for swift, nor all of women kind, nor only making it about women, nor calling musk an edge lord. You seem to be making the same argument as me.
- On the contrary, I find it more ridiculous when news media pretends like nothing is wrong over at Twitter HQ. I wish more journalists would call Musk out like this every time they're forced to mention Twitter.
  
  Can you really see nothing other than "pretending nothing is wrong" and "calling musk an edge lord?"
  I see the media calling out the faults regularly regularly without needing to act like ..well, an edge lord.
- It's vice.
- On X—which used to be called Twitter before it was bought by billionaire edgelord Elon Musk
  I mean, really? The guy makes my skin crawl, but what a hypocritically edgy comment to put into an article.
  How is that comment hypocritical?
  
  Had big "people calling people edgelords are the real edgelords" type vibes to it, which I'll file in the circular file right next to its cousin "people calling people racists are the real racists".
  Edit: A couple of posts down the dude almost says that quote verbatim.
- I disagree. To pretend nothing is wrong is worse. The author was accurate in their description here.
  
  This is the second poster here who can't seem to understand that there is a whole world of things between "pretending nothing is wrong" and acting like a child by calling people "edge lord."
  Last time I checked, on my front page, there was an article from the NY times about how x is spreading misinformation and musk seems to be part of it. yet they managed to point out this problem without using the term edge lord. Is this shocking to you?

- Every thread man. Feels like reddit with tired references. You're not even the first in this thread to reference it.
  
  Now you do it
  
  Idk if this one will get old for me.

People have been doing these for years even before AGI.
Now, it's just faster.
Edit: Sorry, I suppose I should mean LLM AI
- Agi? Where
  
  There is no point waiting for a response...the threat has been neutralized. Now repeat after me: There is no AGI.
- AGI continues to exist purely in the realm of science fiction.
  
  I think they might have used AGI to mean "AI Generated Images" which I've seen used in a few places, not know that AGI is already a term in the AI lexicon.

And this is why I don’t want to be famous. Being famous exposes your name to the crazies of the world, and leaves you blissfully unaware until the crazies snap.
- "... privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back." -Bob Dylan

Nightmare? Doesn't it simply give them the chance to just say any naked pic of them is fake now?
- Oh I'm sure that must be a very nice thing to talk out with your mother or significant other.
  "Don't worry they are plastering naked pictures of me everywhere, it's all fake"
  
  Is your mother like under the impression that you are a virgin or something? My mother knows where my kids came from.
  
  Well if they think that's your fault they're pretty shitty
  
  Have you met my mom? She would 100% love the fact that people are trying to see her naked.
- An Argentine candidate got filmed while being allegedly stoned, so "someone" released an even worst video that was clearly fabricated by an AI to disprove the first one. It kind of worked
  
  I think more politicians should get stoned. Like drugs stoned.
  
  How does video indicate someone is stoned?
- The only sensible course of action is to deep fake nudes of all our old grody ass relatives until everyone feels desensitized towards being naked

I'm not saying she shouldn't have complained about this. She has every right to, but complaining about it definitely made the problem a lot worse.
- Streisand Effect or something.
  
  This is something negative that can impact her not something negative she did that she'd like us to forget.
  She oughta make a stink and put a spotlight on it if it's gonna hurt her image.
  
  Except she's the most famous woman in the country, a well-established sex symbol, and already the subject of enumerable erotic fantasies and fictions.
  Its the same problem as "The Fappening" from forever ago. The fact that this exists is its own fuel and whether she chooses to acknowledge it or not is a moot point. Someone is going to talk about it and the news will spread.
- This a problem that doesn't just affect her though. Not discussing the problem means it doesn't get worse for her, but does continue to happen to other people.
  Discussing it means it gets worse for her but there could be potentially be solutions found. Solutions that would help her and other people affected.
  Worst case scenario is no solution is found, but the people making AI porn make more Taylor Swift AI porn which results in less resources being devoted towards making AI porn of other people. This makes things worse for Swift but better for other people.
  TLDR; Taylor Swift is a saint and is operating a level that us petty sinners can't comprehend.
- she drew so much attention to it though that there are more news stories than actual images at this point. if you look for the images, you're gonna have to go through pages and pages of news articles about it at this point. not sure if it was intentional, but kinda worked...
- This is probably a good thing even if real nudes leaked nobody would know if it's real

At least now, if pictures are real, you can say it’s AI generated.
Still, to be honest, I’ve never understood how some people can let one night stands film them naked.
If it’s a longtime girlfriend or boyfriend and they betray you, it’s different, but people aren’t acting in a clever way when it comes to sex.
- There's nothing wrong with recording your naked body and it being seen online by willing persons.
  The people who would disrespect you for it, they're the problem.
  
  That’s not what I’m talking about.
  I’m talking about not being careful who you’re giving these images if you don’t want them to spread online. And, of course, the person sharing it on the web is the guilty person, not the naked victim.
- Well, you don't have that many brain cells in the areas people are doing that thinking.

Well, targeting someone famous and going overboard with it likely results in legal responses. Perhaps this gets deepfakes then attention they need to be regulated or legally punishable. Especially when targeting underage children.

Some of them are really good too, in a realistic sense. You can tell they are AI though.

She does have the money to sue every poster to kingdom come.

Yeah, I'm sure next time she's looking for a job her potential employer will google her name and when he find this fake porn will not hire her. She will forever be haunted by this and her career and personal life will suffer. You know, every woman's nightmare.
- You clearly don’t get it, and might be beyond understanding any explanation.
  
  I think @ExLisper is saying Taylor swift is not living other women's porn nightmare - other women need to worry about career impacts and the effect on their capability to earn money and support their families, which taylor, being the industry powerhouse and billionaire she is, need not be really concerned by.
  The same way every other issue affects different classes of society differently.
  
  Same to you my friend, same to you.

I'm not really sure what to think of this. On one hand, the way I see it, AI deep fakes are essentially a form of defamation, and can harm people by in a way being a false rumour about their sexual life. However, public figures are subject to a much higher standard for defamation, and for a very good reason, else there would be a strong chilling effect on satire, parody, and criticism.
In general I think that deepfakes are only wrong (defamatory) if a reasonable person couldn't easily distinguish them from reality, so obvious fake stuff doesn't count. But for those that are, where is the line drawn for public figures? It is unfortunate that many people can't choose whether to become a public figure, but it is essential to a functional society that freedom of the press and free expression be lenient when it comes to satirical, critical, creative, and even indecent works related to them. But this is of course not absolute.

I feel like this is amazing. Everyone can get any porn they want and no one gets hurt? And if nudes of anyone are ever "leaked" you could just say they're AI generated. It's like a win win win.
- Spreading it is a shitty thing to do. If you want to make it in your own privacy that's your business, but don't spread it around. It's not like it's hard to make.
- Are you stupid? This absolutely hurts those that are being victimized by this.
- The true golden age for kids porn.
- I wish someone would make AI porn of me.
  
  You can do it yourself

What should I do to avoid these nudes?
- According to the article it's impossible, you will probably see these on a billboard on your way into work. According to real life if you spend several hours looking for them you might find them on some 4chan sub somewhere. If you don't know to avoid corners of the internet like that already, there isn't any hope.
- Don't be a woman. That's the only reasonable way to exist. The world is against them and will do anything it can to keep them as toys.

I'm only here for the articles... anyone has the articles to "read" the real deal?
- Is this a Playboy joke
  
  no, jokes are another section. he's talking about the fine Playboy editorial pieces.
- At this point just bing it

Bet that whoever is doing it is either a hardcore neckbeard simp, or a butthurt conservative. They’re similar, but not the same.

Ya yuge nightmare being a billionaire must be. Poor rich person
- So you’re saying that the more wealth a person has, the more they deserve crimes against them? Come one know kid. Do you really want to think this way?
  
  That's not their point and you know it. Get your bad faith debating tactics out of here.
  She isn't living "every woman's nightmare" because a woman without the wealth and influence Taylor has might actually suffer significant consequences. For Taylor, it's just a weird Tuesday. For an average small town lady, it might mean loss of a job, loss of mate, estrangement from family and friends... That's a nightmare.

This shit is gross in general but she absolutely markets herself as a sex icon. I guarantee you she's not that upset about more free publicity.
- What?
  
  Read up on her. She 100% portrays a product and sells that product. She knows what she's doing.

She can dry her tears with her millions
- Butthurt jealousy is always cringy. Funny. But still cringy.

Gcan we get some links?

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