Perhaps the video is extremely violent.
Orbrace yourselfthe woman in it hasyourfaceand you never consented to a starring role.
X has since blocked searches for Taylor Swift on the site.
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Swift is understood to beconsidering legal actionagainst the deepfake website that hosted the images.
It was profoundly unsettling and disturbing, she tellsGlamour.
It brought back memories of my own experience, Mort says.
I started thinking about the abusive images all over again in excruciating detail.
She notes that nonconsensual deepfake pornography is probably shockingly common.
What are deepfakes?
Worse still, 99% of those targeted by deepfake pornography are women.
We see this with Taylor Swift.
We see this with women politicians, where deepfake porn is an attempt to intimidate them.
We see it with many women in the public eye.
But seeing high-profile women victimized in this way also has a profound impact on regular women and girls.
People threatened to make similar deepfake images of me, she tellsGlamour.
Its clear that deepfake technology is rapidly hurtling out of control.
Moreover, most countries are ill-equipped to deal with tech-facilitated harms like deepfaked image-based abuse.
Meanwhile, the tech sector itself is alienating victims.
What is the law on deepfakes in the United States?
There is no federal law regarding deepfakes in the US.
However, nothing concrete has been done on a federal level.
We’re still looking for answers.
Glamourhas reached out to representatives for Taylor Swift and X for comment.
Reach out to the Cyber Civil Rights Initiativescrisis hotlineat 844-878-CCRI (2274).
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This post originally appeared onGlamour UK.
