Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is the latest female celebrity to speak out after being targeted with a sexually explicit deepfake video that circulated on X over the weekend. “It’s really sick how yall go out of the way to hurt me when you see me winning,” Megan Thee Stallion on Saturday. The artist, whose real name is Megan Pete, appeared to be alluding to the video circulating online.
She wrote it was “fake,” adding, “Just know today was your last day playing with me and I mean it.” Deepfakes refer to digital media that are generated or altered using artificial intelligence or other visual or audio manipulation tools. Some of the most prominent examples “face-swap” individuals, overwhelmingly women and girls, into pornographic or sexually suggestive material.
Both and figures have been targeted, and deepfake creators can even selling the material online. A spokesperson for Roc Nation, which represents Megan Thee Stallion, declined to comment. NBC News viewed 18 posts on X that contained the fake video of Megan Thee Stallion, including one that juxtaposed it with the original video that had been used to create the deepfake.
Six of the posts had more than 30,000 views each. By Monday afternoon, after NBC News had reached out for comment, it appeared that some of the posts had been removed from the platform. A spokesperson for X said the platform’s “rules prohibit the sharing of non-consensual intimate media and we are proactively removing this content.
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