Taylor Swift Search Re-enabled on X Following AI Nudes – The Hollywood Reporter

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 a statement from X, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

The re-enabling of Swift’s name search comes on the heels of the White House weighing in on the controversy and urging Congress to “take legislative action,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ABC News on Friday. “We are alarmed by the reports of the … circulation of images that you just laid out — of false images to be more exact, and it is alarming … 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.”

Several of the fake images portrayed Swift in sexualized positions while partially wearing Kansas City Chiefs garb in a group of fans of the football team, a reference to her relationship with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

The Daily Dot reported that the images were seen at least 22 million times before X cracked down on the posts and tried to remove them. The singer-songwriter’s fans rallied to report the images and flood the social media site with positive posts about her with keywords like “Taylor Swift AI.”

In addition to the White House, New York Congressman Joe Morelle and Virginia Senator Mark Warner also weighed in on the situation. Morelle used the AI nudes to push for a bill that would make the nonconsensual sharing of digitally altered explicit images a federal crime. Warner noted it was “a deplorable situation” and stated that he was going to continue to urge AI companies to put a stop to the circulation of fake images.

On Friday, SAG-AFTRA issued a statement about the images, noting that they “are upsetting, harmful, and deeply concerning.”

The union continued, “The development and dissemination of fake images — especially those of a lewd nature — without someone’s consent must be made illegal. As a society, we have it in our power to control these technologies, but we must act now before it is too late. SAG-AFTRA continues to support legislation by Congressman Joe Morelle, the Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act, to make sure we stop exploitation of this nature from happening again. We support Taylor, and women everywhere who are the victims of this kind of theft of their privacy and right to autonomy.”

The original images of Swift went viral on Wednesday, but as more appeared across X and other social media platforms, it likely became more difficult to enforce the removal of them.

Swift and her camp have remained publicly silent on the matter, but some reports have claimed the singer is considering legal action.

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 a statement from X, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

The re-enabling of Swift’s name search comes on the heels of the White House weighing in on the controversy and urging Congress to “take legislative action,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ABC News on Friday. “We are alarmed by the reports of the … circulation of images that you just laid out — of false images to be more exact, and it is alarming … 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.”

Several of the fake images portrayed Swift in sexualized positions while partially wearing Kansas City Chiefs garb in a group of fans of the football team, a reference to her relationship with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

The Daily Dot reported that the images were seen at least 22 million times before X cracked down on the posts and tried to remove them. The singer-songwriter’s fans rallied to report the images and flood the social media site with positive posts about her with keywords like “Taylor Swift AI.”

In addition to the White House, New York Congressman Joe Morelle and Virginia Senator Mark Warner also weighed in on the situation. Morelle used the AI nudes to push for a bill that would make the nonconsensual sharing of digitally altered explicit images a federal crime. Warner noted it was “a deplorable situation” and stated that he was going to continue to urge AI companies to put a stop to the circulation of fake images.

On Friday, SAG-AFTRA issued a statement about the images, noting that they “are upsetting, harmful, and deeply concerning.”

The union continued, “The development and dissemination of fake images — especially those of a lewd nature — without someone’s consent must be made illegal. As a society, we have it in our power to control these technologies, but we must act now before it is too late. SAG-AFTRA continues to support legislation by Congressman Joe Morelle, the Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act, to make sure we stop exploitation of this nature from happening again. We support Taylor, and women everywhere who are the victims of this kind of theft of their privacy and right to autonomy.”

The original images of Swift went viral on Wednesday, but as more appeared across X and other social media platforms, it likely became more difficult to enforce the removal of them.

Swift and her camp have remained publicly silent on the matter, but some reports have claimed the singer is considering legal action.