Taylor Swift’s fans share AI-edited video of her former beau Joe Alwyn
One person expressed concern about the aggressive behavior towards Joe, stating, “They’ve been getting more aggressive than I’ve ever seen them. Actually fabricating evidence to make him look bad and suppressing attempts to fact check it. I hope they don’t take it further than this, but I already didn’t think they’d go this far, and here we are. It’d be nice if Taylor could make a statement condemning her fans who do this. I wish I still had enough faith that she’d do something like that for anyone but herself.”
Another individual questioned why Taylor is allowing Joe to be bullied and hated on the internet when she has experienced similar treatment in the past. Another person added, “I really am losing respect for Taylor the more time goes by and she allows her rabid fans to try to destroy people’s reputations. Especially someone she spent 6 years with. How incredibly immature of her and gross of her fans.”
Some observers highlighted the hypocrisy of using AI to vilify Joe shortly after Taylor herself was targeted by AI with deepfake images. One person commented, “So AI is bad when people used it against her. Yes, it is bad and she did not deserve that. However they have no problem using it against Joe. It’s bad and wrong in both cases.” Another person noted, “So AI generated stuff is ok until it happens to Taylor? noted 🙄”