Taylor Swift’s Name Unsearchable on X After AI Explicit Photos Scandal – Billboard

Social media customers looking up Taylor Swift‘s identify on X (previously Twitter) had been in for a shock on Saturday (Jan. 27).

After typing within the 34-year-old pop celebrity’s identify within the search field on X, customers acquired the next error message: “One thing went unsuitable. Attempt reloading.” Swift’s official X account was nonetheless accessible at press time on Saturday afternoon.

Billboard has reached out to the social media firm’s representatives for remark.

The search situation on X arrives days after sexually specific deepfake photographs of Swift started circulating on-line. A submit that includes the pictures shared via X on Wednesday evening (Jan. 25) was seen 47 million instances earlier than the account was ultimately suspended the next day. X went on to close down a number of accounts that posted the faux photographs, however the photographs have since been shared on different social media platforms. “Defend Taylor Swift” quickly started trending on X.

The White Home spoke out after the scandal, calling for laws to guard victims on on-line harassment. White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to as the incident “alarming,” and that the negatives of AI is one thing that the Biden administration is specializing in.

“In fact Congress ought to take legislative motion,” Jean-Pierre stated, in line with The Verge. “That’s the way you take care of a few of these points.”

Jean-Pierre additionally stated that social media corporations “have an necessary position to play in implementing their very own guidelines” to forestall such a harassment.

“We all know that lax enforcement disproportionately impacts girls and in addition ladies, sadly, who’re the overwhelming targets of on-line harassment and in addition abuse.”

SAG-AFTRA additionally launched an announcement on the matter, writing, “The event and dissemination of pretend photographs — particularly these of a lewd nature — with out somebody’s consent should be made unlawful. As a society, we’ve got it in our energy to manage these applied sciences, however we should act now earlier than it’s too late.”

The actor’s union referred to as the pictures “upsetting, dangerous, and deeply regarding.”