Just a duo of calendar week ago , wereportedthat celebrity AI pornography had become a novel fad amongst technical school geeks . The software was first created by a Reddit user shout out " deepfakes " , who created an algorithm to switch the face of porn stars with those of celebrities . Another , more drug user - friendly app , holler " FakeApp " , was also make .
Reddit substance abuser even created a subject matter screw thread to teaching each other exactly how to pull strings the faces in the original mental object , but Pornhub wo n’t have any of it . Last Tuesday , the democratic adult site toldMotherboardthat they saw “ deepfakes ” as an act of nonconsensual erotica and that they would be removing any such videos uploaded to the site .
" Nonconsensual message straight off violates our TOS [ terms of service ] and consists of substance such as revenge smut , deepfakes or anything published without a person ’s consent or permission , ” a Pornhub spokesperson tell Motherboard .
Pornhub ’s frailty president , Corey Price , toldMashablethat user of the site have already go flag up deepfake porn video and rede anyone else who add up across them to cover them to the web site .
" We promote anyone who encounters this issue to shoot the breeze our substance removal page so they can officially make a postulation , " he said .
In the face of the technology ’s growing popularity , Reddit has dispatch the thread talk about how to create deepfake porn video using the algorithm . " As of February 7 , 2018 , we have made two update to oursite - wide of the mark policyregarding involuntary erotica and sexual or suggestive content need minors , " Reddit toldMotherboard .
Although on the surface it ’s just a fount swap , the material and intent behind deepfakes can be damaging , especially when consent has n’t been founder by any of the fame whose face have been used .
Twitter has alsorecently banneddeepfake porn video as they assault its informal sensitive insurance policy . " We will suspend any account we identify as the original poster of familiar medium that has been produce or disperse without the subject ’s consent , " a interpreter toldMotherboard .
So far , PornHub , Twitter , and Reddit are the only sites to have spoken up about the issue of deepfake porno .
