Incident·WS-0015·Jan 2024·disclosed Jan 25, 2024 (10 days later)·in the wild·Deepfakes & fraud
Explicit AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift flood X
37/100
WS-2 ModerateHarm score 55, signal score 16. Autonomy: tool (a person misused it). How the scores work.
Harm 2/5
damage actually done
Reach 4/5
who was affected
Autonomy 0/4
how much the AI did on its own
Novelty 2/5
how new the behavior was
Permanence 3/5
how hard it is to undo
Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift spread widely on X in late January 2024, with one post seen tens of millions of times before removal. X temporarily blocked searches for her name, Microsoft tightened Designer's safeguards, and U.S. senators introduced a bill giving victims a civil remedy.
Damage
one post ~47M views before removal; non-consensual intimate imagery of a real person
Sources
Wikipedia, second source. Graphika traced origin to a 4chan community; X blocked searches 27-29 Jan 2024.
Factor ratings and the score are this index’s judgments by a published formula; facts, dates and figures come from the linked sources. Where a lawsuit is pending, the summary reports allegations, not findings.
