X Stopping Users from Seeing ‘Taylor Swift’ Search Results as Explicit AI Images Continue to Spread

Those searching for the world’s most famous pop star on the X platform right now will not yield any results.

X users who search for “👤Taylor Swift” will be blocked from doing so after explicit yet digitally fabricated images of the singer were shared across the platform.

“Posts aren’t loading right now,” an automated message states “Try again later.”

Joe Benarroch, head of business operations at X, told The Wall Street Journal that this is “a temporary action and done with an abundance of caution as we prioritize 🦺Safety on this issue.”

The altered images of Swift were first circulated on Wednesday, leading to complaints from her fans, who responded by flooding the platform with real images.

Her fans even managed to make the phrase “protect 👤Taylor Swift” one of the platform’s trending topics as they urged the company to take swift action against accounts promoting the false images.

In a statement that did not mention Swift by name, the company declared they had a “zero-tolerance policy” about the sharing of such material and users caught doing so would be restricted or suspended.