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BREAKING NEWS: Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift are READY TO SUE Donald Trump because of….see what Legal Analysts Say
Former President Donald Trump shared a series of images on Truth Social Sunday night suggesting that superstar Taylor Swift and a group of her followers called “Swifties for Trump” had endorsed him in the 2024 presidential election.
Many of the images, including one of the singer-songwriter dressed as Uncle Sam with the caption, “Taylor Swift Wants You To Vote For Donald Trump,” appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence.
He wrote in one of the captions, “I accept!”
In 2020, Swift backed the campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and there is certainly no love lost between her and former President Trump, whom she has accused of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism.”
Swift, however, has yet to endorse any presidential candidate this election cycle.
The posts were met with outrage on social media, both by Trump’s critics and fans of the megastar singer-songwriter. Some legal analysts believe Swift has grounds to sue the Republican nominee over the AI-manipulated “false endorsement.”
“I hope this inspires every Taylor Swift fan to vote for Harris. And every music fan. And every person who cares about an artist’s image & prestige stole by a criminal politician. And everyone who supports women’s rights. Oh, and I hope Ms. Swift sues Trump back to the Stone Age,” attorney and former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
One of the images in Trump’s post—of a woman in a white “Swifties for Trump” T-shirt—is not fake. One image showed Jenna Piwowarczyk wearing the homemade T-shirt to a Trump rally in Racine, Wisconsin, in June. Piwowarczyk went on to explain her decision to start the movement in a YouTube video.
Last month, a bi-partisan NO FAKES Act was introduced in the Senate that aims to protect individuals’ voices and likenesses from AI-generated replicas. The act would “hold individuals or companies liable for damages for producing, hosting, or sharing a digital replica of an individual performing in an audiovisual work, image, or sound recording that the individual never actually appeared in or otherwise approved—including digital replicas created by generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a press release on Democratic Senator Chris Coons’ website.
In addition, 10 states, including Swift’s home state of Tennessee, have enacted legislation to regulate deepfakes, which could give her additional room to sue Trump or his campaign.
Neama Rahmani, president and founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Business Insider, “Swift could sue Trump and those who misappropriated her likeness by creating AI-generated images.” He continued, “Privacy torts protect people from having their name, image, or likeness used without their permission. Manipulating it using AI doesn’t change things.”
Rahmani pointed to the tenacity of Swift’s lawyers and said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if they send the Trump campaign a cease-and-desist letter at a minimum,” he told Business Insider.