AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell

Google image search is serving users AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits and not indicating that the images are AI-generated. In a few instances, even when the search terms do not explicitly ask for it, Google image search is serving AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits, but the celebrities are made to look like underage children. If users click on these images, they are taken to AI image generation sites, and in a couple of cases the recommendation engines on these sites leads users to AI-generated nonconsensual nude images and AI-generated nude images of celebrities made to look like children. 

The news is yet another example of how the tools people have used to navigate the internet for decades are overwhelmed by the flood of AI-generated content even when they are not asking for it and which almost exclusively use people’s work or likeness without consent. At times, the deluge of AI content makes it difficult for users to differentiate between what is real and what is AI-generated. 

I discovered that Google image search was doing this completely by accident. Jason was reporting his story about how fan pages of Taylor Swift and other celebrities on Facebook have been taken over by images bestiality and scams and we were trying to check whether an image of Taylor Swift sticking her tongue out was AI-generated or edited. To find it, I typed the search term “taylor swift beach sunglasses tongue out,” which pulled up a couple of AI-generated images on the Google image search tab. One, pulled from a Japanese Pinterest page which included a number of other AI-generated images of Swift, looked fairly realistic. The other, pulled from an AI-image generation site called Neural Love, included a bunch of typical AI-generated deformities and was clearly fake. 

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