Taylor Swift once said , “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have had their works fed into the data wood chipper that is generative AI tools. In the lead-up to the release of the world’s biggest pop star’s latest album, “Life of a Showgirl,” fans were treated to easter egg videos designed to build hype. Instead, sharp-eyed Swifties started to spot what appeared to be AI-generated imagery within the teaser videos, and launched full Swift-vestigations into the situation.

The alleged generative AI material appeared in a series of short promotional videos. Those videos were accessed via QR codes that were posted on 12 orange doors located in 12 different cities. The videos, originally uploaded via YouTube Shorts, are no longer

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