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Kate McKinnon humorously discovered, along with the rest of the world, that she’d accidentally been sending “tasteful nudes” to cinematic legend Steven Spielberg during the 96th Academy Awards.At Sunday’s Academy Awards, comedian Kate had everyone laughing as she and her Barbie co-star, America Ferrera, presented together and included a playful banter about Jurassic Park in their Oscars bit.The duo was presenting the awards for Best Documentary Short and Best Documentary Feature when Kate’s perfect comedic timing came…

Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request.The arrest reports say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the images of the students who were “between the ages of 12 and 13.”The Florida case appears to be the first arrests and criminal charges as a result of alleged sharing of AI-generated nude images to come to light. The boys…

If an eighth-grader in California shared a nude photo of a classmate with friends without consent, the student could conceivably be prosecuted under state laws dealing with child pornography and disorderly conduct.If the photo is an AI-generated deepfake, however, it’s not clear that any state law would apply.That’s the dilemma facing the Beverly Hills Police Department as it investigates a group of students from Beverly Vista Middle School who allegedly shared photos of classmates that had been doctored with an…

Taylor Swift‘s name is no longer drawing up a blank space on X/Twitter. Searches for the singer’s name were disabled over the weekend, following an excess of pornographic AI nudes of her flooding the social media platform, which also wiped all results for “Taylor Swift nude” or “Taylor Swift AI.” Now, X has reinstated the ability to search for her name. “Search has been re-enabled and we will continue to be vigilant for any attempt to spread this content and will remove it if we find it,” reads…

Searches for “Taylor Swift” on Saturday are drawing a blank space on Twitter/X, as the social network is no longer on showing any search results for the singer after a proliferation of pornographic AI nudes flooded the service earlier this week. The service also shows no results for “Taylor Swift nude” or “Taylor Swift AI” — the search terms widely used to circulate the illicit images. But benign-sounding searches, such as “Taylor Swift singer,” still pull up results. The move follows the White…

SAG-AFTRA issued a statement on Friday addressing the sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift, which provoked intense backlash online earlier this week. Around the same time, the White House also released a statement on the issue. The actor’s union called the deepfake images “upsetting, harmful, and deeply concerning.” The images portrayed the singer in various sexualized positions while partially dressed in Kansas City Chiefs merch and surrounded by Chiefs fans (ostensibly a reference to…

Pornographic, nude images of Taylor Swift that were generated using AI have been circulating on social media, provoking massive outrage among her fans and beyond. The fake images — deepfakes — portrayed Swift in several sexualized positions while partially clad in Kansas City Chiefs garb among hordes of fellow Chiefs fans (a reference to her romance with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce). According to The Daily Dot, the images were seen at least 22 million times before X cracked down on the…

As sexually graphic AI-generated images of Taylor Swift flooded X (formerly Twitter) yesterday, causing the phrase “Taylor Swift AI” to trend on the platform, the singer’s fans grew apoplectic. They fumed that the site (whose content moderation team has been all but entirely dissolved by owner Elon Musk) wasn’t acting quickly enough to take down the posts, which violated X’s community guidelines, or ban the accounts responsible. One of the most viral tweets stayed up 17 hours and drew some 45 million views. In the…

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, officials are investigating an incident involving a teenage boy who allegedly used artificial intelligence to create and distribute similar images of other students – also teen girls – that attend a high school in suburban Seattle, Washington. The disturbing cases have put…

Even on a Saturday, the artificial intelligence space continues to be a hub of activity. On December 2, we witnessed multiple big announcements and callouts for safety in AI. In the first news, President Droupadi Murmu said that while the use of AI was making people's lives easier, its misuse to create deepfakes poses a threat to society. In other news, researchers have created an AI-powered laser camera capable of remotely detecting a person's heartbeat and identifying indicators of potential cardiovascular ailments.…