Anyone could be a victim of ‘deepfakes’. But there’s a reason Taylor Swift is a target |

Deepfake porn is a potent new weapon for harassment – and it’s not a coincidence Swift has become its most prominent victim

Taylor Swift is having quite a month. The singer-songwriter saw her image in disgusting deepfake porn images that were circulated online, prompting a necessary and overdue conversation on how AI and deepfake porn is used to harass, humiliate, degrade, threaten, extort and punish (mostly) women. And then her boyfriend, the football player Travis Kelce, saw his team make …

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