After months of “will she/won’t she/does it even matter” last fall, Taylor Swift posted an endorsement of Kamala Harris on her Instagram ahead of the 2024 presidential election. While most of her statement was focused on the Harris–Tim Walz campaign’s emphasis on reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ issues, she couched the timing in then-candidate Donald Trump’s use of an AI-generated image of Swift endorsing him . “Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” she wrote at the time. In retrospect, the wording of her statement makes it sound like it’s perhaps the first time she ever considered that her image could be weaponized.

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