X Blocks Taylor Swift Search after ‘Deepfake’ Image Spread

2024-02-06 15:58:00来源：网络

X封锁泰勒·斯威夫特搜索，原因是“深度伪造”图片的传播

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　　By Gregory Stachel

　　29 January 2024

　　The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer.

　　A "deepfake" is an image, sound recording, or video created to make it appear that people in it are saying or doing things that they did not say or do.

　　Attempts to search for her name without quotation marks on the site Monday resulted in a failure message. It asked users to retry their search. "Don't fret — it's not your fault," also appeared.

　　However, putting quotation marks around her name permitted posts to show where her name appeared.

　　The images of Swift began spreading widely on X last week. She is now the most famous victim of a danger that technology companies and anti-abuse groups have struggled to fix.

　　"This is a temporary action and done with an abundance of caution as we prioritize safety on this issue," Joe Benarroch, head of business operations at X, said in a statement.

　　After the images began spreading, the singer's loyal fan base, called "Swifties," quickly came to her defense. They launched a protective movement and flooded the site with more positive images of the singer. They used the hashtag #ProtectTaylorSwift on their posts. Some said they were reporting accounts that were sharing the deepfakes.

　　The deepfake-search group Reality Defender said it followed many posts of pornographic material of Swift. Many of the posts were found on X, formerly known as Twitter. Some images also made their way to Facebook and other social media sites.

　　The researchers found at least 20 different images created by artificial intelligence (AI).

　　Researchers have said the number of pornographic deepfakes has grown in the past few years. The increase continues as the technology used to produce such images has become more available and easier to use.

　　In 2019, a report released by the AI company DeepTrace Labs showed these images were mainly weaponized against women. Most of the victims, it said, were Hollywood actors and South Korean singers.

　　I'm Jill Robbins.

　　The Associated Press reported this story. Gregory Stachel adapted it for VOA Learning English.

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　　作者：Gregory Stachel

　　2024年1月29日

　　社交媒体网站X因为对歌手泰勒·斯威夫特的深度伪造色情图片在网上的传播，而封锁了一些对她的搜索。

　　"深度伪造"是指创建的图像、声音录音或视频，使得其中的人物看起来在说或做他们并未说过或做过的事情。

　　周一在该网站上尝试搜索她的名字（不带引号）会导致失败信息。它要求用户重新搜索。"别担心——这不是你的错，"也出现了。

　　然而，把她的名字用引号括起来，就可以显示出她的名字出现的帖子。

　　斯威夫特的图片上周在X网站上广泛传播。她现在是科技公司和反滥用团体一直努力解决的危险的最著名的受害者。

　　X网站的业务运营负责人Joe Benarroch在一份声明中说："这是一项临时行动，我们在这个问题上优先考虑安全，因此采取了极度谨慎的态度。"

　　图片开始传播后，歌手的忠实粉丝群体，被称为"Swifties"，迅速站出来为她辩护。他们发起了一场保护运动，并在网站上发布了更多对歌手的正面图片。他们在帖子上使用了#ProtectTaylorSwift的标签。有些人说他们正在举报分享深度伪造图片的账户。