Some days it’s just hard to get ahead of the bad guys — but it’s time for Massachusetts law to at least catch up with them.
Even as Massachusetts lawmakers are wrestling with legislation to recognize revenge porn as a crime — something that is taking far too long for this state to do — the bad guys are using the latest in artificial intelligence to get another step ahead.
So in the run-up to this year’s Super Bowl, one of the unfortunate sidelights was the treatment of Travis Kelce’s girlfriend — yes, that would be the Taylor Swift — who became the victim of AI-generated sexually explicit images on social media. She’s hardly the first celebrity to be subject to such abuse. But as the technology gets better so do the opportunities for exploitation. One deep fake image of Swift was reportedly viewed over 45 million times on X before X ordered the content taken down and “appropriate actions against the accounts responsible for posting them.”
