White House Urges Action After ‘Alarming’ Taylor Swift Deepfakes
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The White House said sexually-explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift were concerning and that Congress should consider legislation to address fake, abusive images that are proliferating online.

White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar…::The White House said sexually-explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift were concerning and that Congress should consider legislation to address fake, abusive images that are proliferating online.

    • 1371113@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Plenty of regular folks calling for this for decades and only once someone far enough up the money tree gets hurt do they do something. Frankly disgusting.

      • PhoenixzEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        Decades? We had deep fakes for decades?

        • 1371113@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          We had edited photos for decades. There’s no difference in the effect.

          And yes, people have been working on AI in earnest since the 80s, just wasn’t in the public space.