Twitter blocked searches on Taylor Swift's name last week. The reason: explicit AI-generated images had gone viral on the social media site. This is not a new phenomenon. It did remind me of a depressing quote from Scarlett Johansson when she spoke to the Washington Post about this issue in 2018.

Nothing can stop someone from cutting and pasting my image or anyone else’s onto a different body and making it look as eerily realistic as desired... The fact is that trying to protect yourself from the Internet and its depravity is basically a lost cause... The Internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself.

Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’ (Drew Harwell/The Washington Post, December 30, 2018)