Meta has ignited a firestorm after chatbots created by the company and its users impersonated Taylor Swift and other celebrities across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp without their permission. Shares of the company have already dropped more than 12% in after hours trading as news of the debacle spread. Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez […]
Taylor Switch 2 Is Launching the GTA 6 of Weddings
Taylor Swift is hearing wedding bells, but every website on Earth just hears the ka-ching of a cash register. At Gizmodo, we pride ourselves on bringing you the best updates in tech, science, and general nerd-ery, but every once in a while, a story comes along that sends a shockwave across the newsroom. Sometimes a […]
Taylor Swift Nearly Doubles Trump’s Podcast Ratings
Taylor Swift appeared last night on her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s, podcast to promote her upcoming 12th studio album, “The Life of a Show Girl,” and a lot of people tuned in. The premiere live stream of the two-hour New Heights podcast drew up to 1.3 million viewers in its first […]
Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode Makes NSFW Celebrity Deepfakes of Women (But Not Men)
This week, Elon Musk officially launched Grok Imagine, xAI’s image and video generator for iOS, for people who subscribe to SuperGrok and Premium+ X. The app allows users to create NSFW content with its “Spicy” mode, and The Verge reported on Tuesday that users are able to create topless videos of Taylor Swift easily—without even […]
Trump Deletes and Reposts Tweet About Sydney Sweeney Several Times
President Donald Trump has been very active on Truth Social this morning, firing off posts about everything from last week’s terrible jobs report to India’s oil imports. But the president’s post about Sydney Sweeney and Taylor Swift had to be deleted and reposted several times to correct spelling errors on Monday. And it speaks to […]