Previously, queries that included the singer’s name failed, giving an error message.
Elon Musk’s X has been unlocked by Taylor Swift after disabling it for several days due to an influx of AI-generated porn images of the singer.
“Search is working again. We will continue to monitor attempts to distribute this content and remove it wherever we find it,” said Joe Benarroch, X’s head of business operations.
Last week, AI-generated candid images of Swift racked up tens of millions of views on X, formerly known as Twitter. The singer became an absolute star of 2023 – concerts with her participation caused seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 earthquake, ticket sales for her concert film broke records, and eventually Time magazine recognized the singer as “Person of the Year”.
Meanwhile, Swift isn’t the only one who has been targeted by the new technology — previously unknown people used Joe Biden’s fake voice to urge Democrats to skip the primaries.
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he has been criticized for his own controversial posts and attempts to revise the platform’s content moderation policy. Many advertisers refused to spend on X, worried that their ads would appear next to “harmful” posts. Last year, Musk and the social network’s CEO, Linda Jaccarino, formulated a new policy called “free speech, not reach,” which restricts the distribution of some posts but refrains from removing them.
Thousands of layoffs have hit Twitter’s content moderation team, but now the social network appears to have admitted its mistake and is looking to hire 100 moderators for a new office in Austin, Texas. The Trust and Safety Center of Excellence will focus on combating content, including child abuse.
The company announced the opening of the center just ahead of a US Senate hearing on online child sexual exploitation. Linda Jaccarino is scheduled to testify on January 31, along with the CEOs of Meta, Snap, TikTok and Discord.
