Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
X/Twitter Blocks Searches for ‘Taylor Swift’ as a ‘Temporary Action to Prioritize Safety’ After Deluge of Explicit AI Fakes
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor X, the social network owned by Elon Musk formerly known as Twitter, has finally taken a rudimentary step to try slow the spread of fake graphic images of Taylor Swift.
As of Saturday, searches that include the text string “Taylor Swift” returned an error message on X that said, “Something went wrong.
Try reloading.” Regarding the change, X head of business operations Joe Benarroch said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal the move to block searches for Taylor Swift, “This is a temporary action and done with an abundance of caution as we prioritize safety on this issue.” The move came several days after sexually explicit AI-generated images of Swift went viral across X, as well as other internet platforms.
On Friday, SAG-AFTRA issued a statement condemning the Swift fake images as “upsetting, harmful and deeply concerning” and said “the development and dissemination of fake images — especially those of a lewd nature — without someone’s consent must be made illegal.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in an interview with NBC News, called the fake Swift porn images “alarming and terrible” and said that “we have to act” and that “irrespective of what your standing on any particular issue is I think we all benefit when the online world is a safe world.” The White House also weighed in on the issue.
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