Megan Thee Stallion points out a “fake” sexually explicit video circulating on X

Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is the latest female celebrity to speak out after being targeted in a sexually explicit deepfake video that circulated on X over the weekend.

“It’s really crazy how you guys go out of your way to hurt me when you see me win,” Megan Thee Stallion posted on X on Saturday.

The artist, whose real name is Megan Pete, apparently alluded to the video circulating on the Internet. She wrote it was “wrong” and added: “All I know is that today was your last day playing with me and I mean that.”

Deepfakes are digital media that are generated or modified using artificial intelligence or other visual or acoustic manipulation tools. Some of the most prominent examples “exchange” people, predominantly women and girls, for pornographic or sexually suggestive material. Both public and private figures have been targeted, and deepfake creators may even profit from selling the material online.

A spokesperson for Roc Nation, which represents Megan Thee Stallion, declined to comment.

NBC News looked at 18 posts. Six of the posts had more than 30,000 views each.

As of Monday afternoon, after NBC News reached out for comment, it appeared some of the posts had been removed from the platform.

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The Elon Musk-owned platform, formerly known as Twitter, has previously been used to spread AI-generated deepfakes of famous women, most notably when a series of fake nude and sexually suggestive images of Taylor Swift went viral on the platform. The New York Times reported that one post was viewed 47 million times before it was removed. In response to the incident, the platform paused searches of Swift’s name for three days.

Other celebrities without Swift’s name recognition have struggled to get the platform to remove sexually explicit deepfakes, including Marvel star Xochitl Gomez, who said her team couldn’t get the material removed even though she was only 17 at the time. X later removed some deepfakes of Gomez after NBC News contacted her. Several TikTok stars have also been targeted with sexually explicit deepfakes on X.

Megan Thee Stallion, whose Hot Girl Summer Tour sold out venues across the US, has been a frequent target of online harassment since her shooting by rapper Tory Lanez in 2020. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2023. One of the same hip-hop news commentators who questioned the shooting incident during the trial said during a livestream that she “drew attention to the rapper’s sexually explicit deepfake” over the weekend.

A legal representative for Megan Thee Stallion previously said they were “exploring all legal options” related to misinformation being spread about her by bloggers.

This article was originally published on TODAY.com