The public backlash persists over the fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift that recently circulated online. But regulating those AI-generated images may pose more challenges than many realize, as only 10 states have directly outlawed some form of the practice amid the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.
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The pornographic and digitally altered images of the superstar singer-songwriter and musician spread last week on social media websites such as X, formerly Twitter. The images were deepfakes, a relatively new term for a seemingly realistic but manipulated video or photo produced by a form of AI. The technology first appeared in late 2017, and subsequent code-sharing has made it more widely available for use, according to the nonprofit Organization for Social Media Safety.
“Part of the problem is that the technology has become less expensive, more accessible and the products of the technology more believable,........