The White House responded to the explicit, AI-generated images of music superstar Taylor Swift that went viral this week.
The White House reacted Friday to the explicit, AI-generated images of music superstar Taylor Swift that had gone viral this week, calling it “alarming” and leaning on Congress for a legislative crackdown.
“We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images… of false images to be more exact. And it is alarming,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at the White House press briefing. “So while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people.”
Jean-Pierre said the “lax enforcement” of non-consensual pornographic imagery that surfaces online “disproportionately impacts women” and “girls sadly,” saying they are the “overwhelming targets of online harassment and also abuse.
