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The Rise of Deepfakes: How Artificial Intelligence is Being Misused to Harm Celebrities and Individuals

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can serve as support in day-to-day tasks, even as a source of knowledge (see here how artificial intelligence can help you make money) but, on the other hand, it can be used to harm third parties (this receives the name of ‘deepfakes’).

In recent months, a debate has been opened around this last type of use, following fake photos of Taylor Swift were published on the social network ‘X’, in which she appears naked, which have been created with the help of artificial intelligence. Given this type of publications, ‘X’ decided to delete them from the platform y showed his rejection of this type of content with the following tweet: “Posting non-consensual nude images is strictly prohibited on X and we have a zero tolerance policy towards such content. “Our teams are actively removing all identified images and taking appropriate action against the accounts responsible for posting them…”

This situation is not the first time it has happened, but it is the first time that ‘X’ acts on ‘deepfakes’ content, whose sole purpose is to cause harm. Are hundreds of anonymous women who have been victims of this type of content. famous as Penelope Cruz o Amaia Salamanca have been used in the creation of this type of pornographic images. Others like Gal Gadotactress of the movie “Wonder Woman”, have seen how she went one step further and Their faces were used in videos for pornographic channels.

The most famous cases about famous victims of ‘deepfake’ are:

Taylor Swift

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Last week, A profile spread through the social network of ‘X’ several photos of the singer where she supposedly appears naked. Supposedly, because once again these photos are not real, but have been generated through a social network. These images reached the entire world, and reached the 45 million views and 24 retweets. Currently, the social network has deleted all tweets and blocked searches for the term ‘Taylor Swift’.

Rosalía

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In May 2023, The singer was a victim of ‘deepfake’ content when a singer called JC Reyes uploaded a tweet where it said: “The best thing you are going to see today” and accompanied it with some photos that the artist had uploaded to her Instagram, eliminating the clothes she was wearing. The Catalan singer spoke about the events and said through ‘X’:

The one who was his partner at that time, Raw Alejandroalso He came out to defend her and show his support publicly.. According to the singer, it was a marketing campaign for the next song that he was going to release. Luckily, there are more sensible people on social media and the artist couldn’t get his way. Even so, these types of atrocities have no justification and deserve more serious consequences.

Ana de Armas, Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson

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For a year now, these Hollywood stars have been victims of the misuse of artificial intelligence. The fact that they are actresses has an influence because, in the end, their face and features are available to everyone and there are certain people who decide to use them to do evil. In the case of other ‘celebrities’, photos from their social networks had been used to generate false images, but With these actresses, their faces and gestures have been used to put them in pornographic videos. This content, Todayremains public and It is used on platforms such as ‘X’ and ‘Facebook’ to advertise pornographic pages.

Laura Scanes

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The Spanish ‘influencer’ has been another of the celebrities whose false images of a sexual nature They have gone viral. In this case, it was not the users themselves who alerted them to the existence of this content, but rather It was the ‘influencer’ herself who reported the existence of some links that direct you to false content where she appears naked, through ‘X’:

To this day, we don’t know if the photos will still be around, but even so, we subscribe to all the words that Laura says in her tweet, because It is just as punishable to create these types of photos as to view and share them.. No one’s body should be used for these things, especially without their authorization.

2024-01-30 12:44:58
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