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Can Taylor Swift save humanity from AI’s dark side?
Around 96 per cent of deepfakes on the web are pornographic. Taylor Swift is said to be considering legal action against one site.
Parmy OlsonThe recurring story of new technology is unintended consequences. Take AI-powered image generators. Their creators have claimed they are enhancing human imagination and making everyone an artist, but they often fail to mention how much they’re helping to create illicit deepfake pornography too. Lots of it.
Over the weekend, X had to shut down searches for “Taylor Swift” because the site formerly known as Twitter had been flooded with so many faked porn images of the singer that it couldn’t weed them all out.
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