Swift criticizes Republicans for using AI to

deeply deceive her into endorsing Trump

 

 

“It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation.”

During her endorsement speech for Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift attacked the AI deepfakes that were deployed to fabricate her endorsement of rival candidate Donald Trump.

In an Instagram endorsement post, the 34-year-old Pennsylvanian took aim at Trump’s running mate JD Vance’s offensive remarks regarding childless women by posting a photo of herself with her cat Benjamin Button. She revealed that she was aware that the GOP candidate had been using her artificial intelligence-generated likeness.

“Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site,” the “Anti-Hero” singer wrote. “It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation.”

Last month, the artist’s rabid fans were made furious after the former president took to his failing social network, Truth Social, to “accept” a fake endorsement from Swift and her stans that had been made using AI.

Cofounder of Swifties4Harris Irene Kim responded to the phony endorsement by telling Wired, “We do not represent every Swiftie, but I think there is a reason we don’t need AI to show our support for Kamala.”

Swift had baked cookies for Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, but she hadn’t yet publicly endorsed of either candidate in this year’s race  and apparently, the AI fakery using her image helped push her endorsement over the edge.

Despite baking cookies for Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020, Swift hadn’t yet come out in support of either candidate in this year’s race  and apparently, the AI fakery using her image helped push her endorsement over the edge.

“It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter,” the billionaire singer wrote. “The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.”

Swift was also the subject of nonconsensual deepfaked nudes earlier this year; although she did not specifically address it, the abuse was so severe that X-formerly-Twitter momentarily banned any searches for the artist’s name.

Furthermore, regarding Twitter and reproductive rights, the website’s proprietor owner Elon Musk responded to Swift’s endorsement of Harris in perhaps the most disgusting way possible: by saying that he would “give” her a child and “protect” her cats with his life, a likely xenophobic dogwhistle that seems very much to prove the pop star’s entire point.