(CNN) - Pornographic, AI-generated images of the world's most famous star spread across social media this week, underscoring the damaging potential posed by mainstream artificial intelligence technology: its ability to create convincingly real and damaging images. The fake images of Taylor Swift were predominantly circulating on social media site X, previously known as Twitter. The photos - which show the singer in sexually suggestive and explicit positions - were viewed tens of millions of times before being removed from social platforms. Like most major social media platforms, X's policies ban the sharing of "synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm." Swift's enormous contingent of loyal "Swifties" expressed their outrage on social media this week, bringing the issue to the forefront.

Source: CNN January 27, 2024 09:53 UTC