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Taylor Swift Under Fire For Using AI In "Life of a Showgirl" Promotional Material

AI promos don’t belong in a billion-dollar era.

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Jim Clyde Monge
Oct 06, 2025
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Taylor Swift is currently being criticized for allegedly using AI to promote her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.

My first reaction was “That’s absurd”. She’s too rich to be cheap.

But then I saw the clips on X myself and boom! They were definitely AI-generated… or at least parts of them.

I’ve been experimenting and reviewing video models for years, so I’ve developed a pretty trained eye when it comes to spotting AI images and videos.

The first promo clip I opened already gave it away. Take a look at how the text are rendered in the video screenshot below.

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