👋 Remember when Taylor Swift positioned herself as an anti-AI advocate? After publicly fighting deepfakes and misinformation, she just used AI slop to promote her new album.

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🤖 Taylor Swift Caught Using AI

Taylor Swift just sparked major controversy by using AI-generated content to promote her new album.

Most billionaire artists hire professional creative teams to craft promotional materials. Swift apparently said "let's use AI" and released treasure hunt videos for "Life of a Showgirl" featuring obvious generative AI hallmarks that fans immediately spotted.

The AI evidence:

• Garbled images and missing letters in Art Nouveau-style bar scene featuring distorted house painting

• Bartender's finger merging with napkin in physically impossible way during promotional clip

• Misaligned dumbbell weights in Barcelona gym scene showing clear AI generation errors

What makes this problematic: Swift has repeatedly advocated for fair artist compensation and spoke out against AI deepfakes targeting her image last year. She literally wrote "AI conjured up my fears around the dangers of spreading misinformation." Now she's using the same technology that replaces human creative labor for her own promotional content.

The financial disconnect: With resources from the highest-grossing tour in history, Swift chose AI generation over hiring actual creatives. As one fan put it: "She's far too rich to be this cheap."

The immediate fallout: YouTube quietly removed the official videos, though Swift's team hasn't explained why. The timing couldn't be worse - OpenAI just launched Sora 2, reigniting debates about AI replacing human artists.

The double standard: Artists watching someone who champions fair pay use AI to avoid paying human creatives represents exactly what the anti-AI movement warned about. When billionaires choose algorithms over artists, it validates every concern about AI's impact on creative industries.

Bottom line: This isn't about technology capabilities - it's about a wealthy artist choosing cost-cutting AI over supporting the creative workers she claims to champion. 🤖

SONG OF THE WEEK

📀 “GO!” by CORTIS | ⭐ 4/5

"GO!" marks CORTIS's polarizing debut as Big Hit's first new boy group since TXT launched in 2019.

• Pre-release ahead of debut album "Color Outside the Lines" featuring five tracks the group wrote

• All five members credited as co-writers alongside Supreme Boi, Hiss Noise, and Johnny Goldstein

• Received scathing critical reception with reviewers calling it "outdated" and "borderline insulting" for Big Hit standards

• Minimal trap beat with heavy autotune blending hip-hop and pop elements with repeated "go, go, go" hooks

The track positioned CORTIS as self-producers but sparked debate about whether they truly earned those writing credits.

What do you think? Leave your review right here.

MEME