Donald Trump Trolls Taylor Swift

Uploaded on 2024-09-12 in TECHNOLOGY-Key Areas-Social Media, NEWS-Cybersecurity News, FREE TO VIEW

Taylor Swift has announced which candidate she’s voting for in the US Presidential Election, and has challenged Donald Trump's campaign for using AI-generated images to fake her support.

The multimillionaire Grammy winning pop star was provoked by former President Donald Trump who has published deepfake images of her on his social media output.

Swift announced her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the 2024 US presidential election in a lengthy Instagram post, in which she addressed the Trump campaign's social media activity, which included AI-created images falsely depicting her as a Trump supporter.

"Recently I was made aware that AI of 'me' falsely endorsing Donald Trump's presidential run was posted to his site," Swift wrote. "It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation."

Swift, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, has been targeted in multiple high-profile exploits involving the use of deepfakes since the widespread emergence of generative AI tools over the past two years. In January, a series of AI-generated deepfakes depicting a nude Swift were shared on social media platforms like X and spread through the internet like wildfire, underscoring how the technology has been overwhelmingly used to sexually target women and highlighting how even someone as famous and powerful as Swift was not immune from being a victim.

Swift said Trump's use of fake AI images prompted her to be transparent about her actual voting plans. "The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth," she stated.

In the same post, Swift announced she would be voting for Harris, praising her as a "steady-handed, gifted leader" who fights for causes Swift believes in. The singer urged her followers to research candidates and register to vote.

Trump had posted the AI-generated images on his Truth Social platform in August, with a caption reading "I accept!" The fake images showed Swift wearing "MAGA" gear and portrayed her fans as Trump supporters. Trump's campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung claimed at the time that "Swifties for Trump is a massive movement that grows bigger every single day."

Generative AI plus a reliance on social media & other online news sources are making it hard for US voters to know what's real and what's not.

Image: Ideogram

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