Taylor Swift has confirmed herself able to many issues, together with toppling monopolies and making mass transit cool once more, however her newest endeavor—taking up synthetic intelligence—is maybe her most bold but. 

Sexually express AI-generated pictures of Swift have been circulating on social media this week, with one X put up attracting greater than 45 million views. Whereas the person who shared the pictures was suspended, the put up was up on the location for nearly a full day. Now, Swift is reportedly contemplating authorized motion. “These faux AI generated pictures are abusive, offensive, exploitative, and carried out with out Taylor’s consent and/or information,” a supply near the 34-year-old singer advised the Day by day Mail.

The problem of deepfakes—i.e. using AI to control an individual’s bodily picture—has been gaining traction recently, with U.S. politicians together with New York congressman Joseph Morelle talking out about Swift’s predicament. (Final 12 months, in an try and make the sharing of deepfake pornography unlawful, Congressman Morelle launched the Stopping Deepfakes of Intimate Photos Act.) “What’s occurred to Taylor Swift is nothing new,” wrote New York congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on X. “This is a matter either side of the aisle & even Swifties ought to have the ability to come collectively to unravel.”

This isn’t the primary time Swift has taken a stand towards sexual exploitation, in fact. In 2017, she counter-sued a Colorado DJ for battery and sexual assault after he groped her at a pre-show meet-and-greet in 2013. (The DJ had initially sued Swift for having him wrongfully terminated from his job.) “I simply wished to say I’m sorry to anybody who ever wasn’t believed as a result of I don’t know what flip my life would have taken if any individual didn’t consider me after I stated one thing had occurred to me,” Swift stated on the one-year anniversary of her sexual assault trial verdict. 

It’s deeply unlucky that Swift is now weathering the predatory manipulation of her picture on-line, however her attain and energy are prone to convey consideration to the problem of prison AI misuse—one which has already victimized far too many individuals.