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.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So for the past year there have been of deep fakes of thousands of minors floating around but it really becomes a problem when a mega famous billionaire is affected where it doesn’t really make much of a difference. Not to say it isn‘t about time. It absolutely is. Interesting priorities though.

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      2 years ago

      It’s entirely logical and definitional that what happens to a celebrity gets more attention than what happens to non celebrities. It could only be this way. You have fumbled whatever type of moral scolding this was supposed to be. Let’s just accept the world is imperfect and celebrate that the issue will get more attention now.