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Pop Superstar Taylor Swift, who hot on her new album, is accused of using AI Slop to promote the record.
As part of a treasure hunt style promotion, Swift challenged fans to spread 12 “orange doors” across 12 cities and find scans accompanied by QR codes. These codes unlock short videos. One of them is doing rounds on social media for all the wrong reasons and unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.
Featuring an art nouveau style bar intended to invoke the album's title “Life of a Showgirl,” one clip has the now-increasing feature of generative AI use. As Eagle-Eid Internet Thruce was discovered, the walled photographs feature garbled depictions of the house, and the book is mysteriously missing letters. At one point, the bartender's middle finger mysteriously blends with the orange napkin he places on the bar counter.
Another video linked via QR codes in Barcelona, Spain, showing what appears to be a gym in a skyscraper shows AI-generated signs.
It appears that other clips included in the series of 12 videos were also produced by AI.
The official copy of the video has since been deleted, as featured on YouTube Shorts, but the reason for this is unknown. Futurism I reached out to a Swift spokesperson for clarity.
The use of AI is impressive considering the astronomical resources Swift has at his disposal. The heavily paid Media Empire has built a huge media empire with ERAS Tour Breaking Records to become the most growing concert tour of all time. This made the netizens furious.
“She's too wealthy and this f***ing is cheap,” one Reddit user saw.
Others advocated for quick, fair wages, rekindled the fierce debate about generative AI, which replaces human labor and creativity, pointing to obvious double standards.
Swift was at the heart of the massive Deepfark controversy last year as X-Formerly-Twitter users share images generated by a large number of her explicit AI. The AI deepfake then surfaced, featuring her portrait of her strengthening support that then presidential candidate Trump emerged.
“It really reminded me of my fears about AI and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” she wrote in an Instagram post at the time.
“The easiest way to fight misinformation is the truth,” she added.
It has recently been called the latest release of Text-to-Video AI generator Openai, Sora 2, and brought debate to the forefront. Tiktok style apps only have virtually infinite streams of problematic AI slops generated in lazy.
“For someone who's done a big deal about how artists aren't paid properly, this is a tone deaf AF for most of her career,” another user wrote.
“I love her, but I read Taylor, the girl, the room,” they added.
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