An AI Taylor Swift endorsement Trump shared was originally pro-Biden meme
Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris after Trump shared an AI-generated picture of her endorsing him. The AI image’s creator spoke to NBC News.
The artificial intelligence-generated image of Taylor Swift endorsing Donald Trump, which the singer said inspired her to endorse Kamala Harris for president this week, came from an unlikely place.
The image, which caused controversy in August after being shared by the former president on Truth Social, originally circulated with text reading, “Taylor wants you to vote for Joe Biden,” and was posted in a pro-Biden Facebook group with just 8,000 members in December 2023. That post was viewed by NBC News. A reverse-image search conducted by NBC News did not find any earlier incidences of the image being posted online.
After the pro-Biden image featuring the AI-generated Swift was first posted on Facebook, it began to travel around the pro-Biden internet, particularly among Gen X and baby boomer supporters of the then-candidate. The Facebook group it was initially posted in is largely a place for Democrats to share memes and information in support of Biden and against Trump.
Taylor Swift performing in Sydney on Feb. 23.David Gray / AFP - Getty Images fileThe image also traveled to X and Instagram’s messaging platform, Threads. S. E. Hinton, author of “The Outsiders,” shared it on X in December. It was posted in a liberal subreddit the same month.
“I am a Boomer for Biden,” one X post of the image was captioned in January.
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