sunday night Donald Trump shared the series pictures On Truth Social, Taylor Swift is seen dressing her fans in t-shirts that say ‘Swifties for Trump’. Among the images was a mocking “Uncle Sam” poster with Swift’s face emblazoned with the words, “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.” Trump wrote: “I accept!” While two of the pictures Trump shared show real women supporting Trump, most of the women depicted there are not real. At least 15 of them are representations of humans created using artificial intelligence.
The images Trump shared were originally posted on X, which is heavily followed by pro-Trump accounts. One of those accounts also posted numerous tutorials on using generative AI tools on the Substack blog. a answer The same account on X admitted that the images Trump shared of them were generated by artificial intelligence.
The new footage is part of a social media campaign by some pro-Trump accounts over the weekend to pitch to Swift’s growing number of fans. Biden confirmed and severely criticized In 2020, Trump goes back to supporting Trump. In fact, for a remarkable number of Swift’s fans, known as “Swifties,” there is little evidence that this is the case.
“There is no Swifties movement for Trump — but there should be,” one account reposted on Truth Social wrote in a caption above AI-generated images of Trump.
Other pro-Trump accounts also shared AI-generated images that falsely depicted Democratic-leaning blocs of voters. Black votersHe supports Trump.
Two of the photos Trump shared on Sunday were of real people and featured a Liberty University college student who had an internship this summer in political communications, according to his LinkedIn account. His “Flexibles for Trump” social media content Big accounts supporting Trump then went under the radar with less than 1,000 views until Trump himself shared it.
The same pro-Trump accounts re-shared TikToks from women who said they were Swift fans and voted for Trump in an effort to promote the idea that Swifts were mobilizing en masse to support Trump. But those videos got fewer views on TikTok than when Trump and his massive supporters re-shared them.
Representatives for Trump’s campaign and Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Swift has yet to endorse a candidate in 2024, but some of her fans have mobilized to support Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Shortly after President Joe Biden announced in July that he would not seek re-election, a social media group called Swifties for Kamala took off. X has over 61,000 followers and is not affiliated with the singer or Harris.
“We don’t represent every Swiftie, but I think we don’t need artificial intelligence to show our support for Kamal,” the organization’s co-founder Irene Kim told NBC News.
AI-generated pictures and videos of Swift have gone viral multiple times this year those who offer sex This violated X’s platform guidelines to others that incorrectly identified Swift Trump supporter.
This is what Trump has done throughout his presidency and campaigns many times shared inflammatory memes created by his online supporters. He shared them on Twitter until 2021, but after being banned from the platform that year, he shared them on his own Twitter impersonator platform, Truth Social. There is Trump after returning Starting August 12th, the day he interviewed Elon Musk on the platform, to place on X with promotion. Over the weekend, Trump posted a fake photo of Harris standing in front of a communist symbol on both X and Truth Social.
It’s not yet clear whether Sunday’s post or images violate certain laws related to advertising, likeness and artificial intelligence. In March, Swift crossed her home state of Tennessee updated legislation to protect unauthorized use of someone’s AI likeness. While the account that admitted the photos were created by artificial intelligence labeled them as satire, the account that first posted the “Uncle Sam” poster using Swift’s likeness did not.
David Greene, director of civil liberties and senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told NBC News that this situation, which is not unique to AI-generated content, could conflict with advertising laws that protect people from unauthorized commercial use of their peers.
“This is probably a stronger case than many others because false endorsement is at the heart of these claims, although we typically see it in terms of product endorsements,” Greene said in an email. “It was a good old, low-tech lie.”