Top 6 Celebrities Who Were Victim To AI; Find Out As Taylor Swift’s Explicit Fake Images Go Viral

Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of DeepFake, the use of AI, and pornographic content.

Disturbing and very explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift went viral on the internet this week. The images of Taylor Swift engaging in lewd sexual acts are still being widely shared and viewed by millions as of this writing. Chances are they will stay on the internet forever since nothing can truly be deleted from the cyber web.

Any content created without the consent of the data subject and with the help of advanced technologies such as AI constitutes a direct invasion of the data subject's right to privacy. Since there are no strict legal regulations to curb such misconduct, not only Taylor Swift, but also various other artists have dealt with victimization by AI. At a time when Taylor Swift's AI images have sparked debates about the dangers of artificial intelligence, we look back at similar examples from the past.

Top 6 Celebrities Who Were Victims of AI

6. Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks took to his Instagram in October last year to alert his fans to a misleading advertisement in which he was featured. “There's a video out there promoting a dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,” the Forrest Gump actor said in his Instagram post. It was unclear which company or product had used Hank's identity for advertising purposes. According to The New York Times, the actor did not tag or otherwise identify the company

5. Morgan Freeman

Twitter lost its mind in January 2023 when an extremely compelling video from Morgan Freeman surfaced on the microblogging platform. In the video, first shared by a Dutch deepfake YouTube channel called Diep Nep, the Shawshank Redemption actor could be seen and heard saying, “I am not Morgan Freeman and what you see is not real.” . The video includes an AI-generated video of Freeman speaking.

4. Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast

In October last year, a fake ad by Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast went viral on TikTok, in which the famous YouTuber promised his followers “an iPhone 15 Pro for just $2.” MrBeast addressed the fake AI-generated ad on X while questioning the readiness of social media platforms to deal with the increasing threat of AI. “A lot of people are getting this deepfake scam ad from me… are social media platforms ready to deal with the increase in AI deepfakes? This is a serious problem,” he noted.

3.Robert Pattinson

The Batman actor was rocked by the deep fake trends when an AI-generated TikTok video of him dancing went viral. In an interview with the Evening Standard, Pattinson said of his strange dance videos: “I know it's frightening.”

“The amount of people who know me quite well still ask, 'Why are you making weird dance videos on TikTok?' It’s really bizarre,” the Twilight actor remarked.

He also added that “we are still two years away from it being indistinguishable from reality.” The videos in question were shared by a TikTok account called @unreal_robert.

2. Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson's battle with deepfake AI-generated content dates back to 2011, when her nude photos were stolen by a hacker and posted online. He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison for this crime. In the following years, numerous doctored videos in which her face was superimposed onto another person's body using artificial intelligence emerged and attracted widespread attention. One of the videos was viewed more than 1.5 million times on a major porn site. Speaking to The Washington Post in 2018, Johansson said: “It obviously doesn't bother me that much because people assume that porn isn't really about men.”

1. Kristen Bell

Fake pornographic videos of Kristen Bell went viral in 2020. The actress' husband alerted her to the AI-generated content when he learned about it from his friend Ashton Kutcher. Speaking to Vox at the time, the “Frozen” actress said: “I was shocked because that's my face… it's mine. It's hard to imagine that I'm being exploited.”

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