Drew Harwell on Nostr: New: X has now for two days blocked all searches for Taylor Swift, one of the world's ...
New: X has now for two days blocked all searches for Taylor Swift, one of the world's biggest superstars, during a very newsy weekend for her, because it couldn't stop AI-generated sex images of her and had no other ideas. A blunt and desperate measure to accomplish a basic content-moderation task - made tougher since X, under Elon Musk's leadership, fired 80% of its workers and most of its "trust and safety" team
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/29/taylor-swift-ai-pictures/Published at
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