White House Calls for Legislation to Stop Production and Distribution of Fake AI Images of Taylor Swift

ABC says millions of people on social media this week saw AI-generatedTaylor Swift Indecent PhotosThis incident highlights the need for AI technology to be regulated.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in response to a question about what went viral on social media this week Taylor Swift (nickname)moldy") on the issue of fake photos issued a statement saying that legislation is needed to protect people from false sex images generated by artificial intelligence.
Calling the incident 'shocking' and saying it was one of the Biden administration's priority AI issues, Karine said 'lax enforcement disproportionately affects women and girls, who sadly are the vast majority of targets of online harassment and abuse. The White House had previously launched a task force to address cyber harassment. But this was clearly a tinkering approach. Clearly, there should be legislation to address this issue."
AI-generated fake images of Taylor Swift went viral on the X platform, with one image reaching 45 million views before being taken down. The post stayed on X for about 17 hours and is still visible on X after layers of retweets.

Photo courtesy ofDeepfakesynthesize

Although the accounts that first distributed the images have been banned, the circulation of the photos has not been completely stopped.
Moldy himself has been informed of the incident and expressed considerable anger about it, and fans have organized their own protective actions.
On X, a netizen directly @ Musk, shouting that this is something you need to come out and take care of, old horse.

It started with Moldy's romance with American NFL football player Travis Kelce.
Kelce plays for the Kansas City Chiefs and Moldy became a regular at the team's games after their romantic relationship was revealed.
AI was then used to generate explicit photos involving Moldy and a number of fictional "team members" against the backdrop of a ballpark.
Image composited by Deepfake
While there are various rumors about how the images went viral, The Verge's claim is that they first appeared among an encrypted chat group. The Daily Mail claims that the Deepfake photos were initially sent to an unsavory website, which is full of unflattering photos featuring famous celebrities. In addition to Mildew, the site featured hundreds of celebrities, including Magrot Robbie, who plays Barbie.
Soon after the photo went online, there was a frenzy across all major social media outlets, including X and Facebook, with reportedly tens of millions of views. "Taylor Swift AI" was a trending topic on X for a while, but is now suspected to be blocked. Upon learning of the incident, Moldy's fans launched a protective action on X, and "PROTECT TAYLOR SWIFT" became the new hot topic. However, there are some people who continue to spread those fake photos under the label of "PROTECT". ......

Angry fans have unearthed a suspected perpetrator of the mass distribution of the photos and say he has a years-long history of sexual harassment. The account has been set up with access privileges, but according to users who have access, the user arrogantly provoked on his account that "you can't find me". Up to now, some of the accounts involved in spreading the photos have been banned by the major platforms, but there are still a lot of fish in the net.

The deletion actions of the major platforms in this incident may have been quite timely, and most of the relevant content is now gone on X.
On Facebook's part, a spokesperson for parent company Meta also told the Daily Mail: the content violates our policies and we are removing it from our platform and taking action against the account that posted it.
However, some netizens say that it's not a matter of deletion and that these photos should never have been on these platforms in the first place.
Meta also responded to this, stating that it "will continue to monitor and remove offending content in a timely manner."
On the technical level, Nature magazine also mentioned Deepfake detection in its "2024 seven of the most noteworthy technology" article. nature's article pointed out that let developers in the AI tools to add invisible watermarking mechanism may be a program. But this approach may be more in the aftermath of tracking, while playing a certain deterrent effect, but want to stop Deepfake from the root cause, may also need the joint efforts of all mankind ......