Deepfake videos are getting better and better, and it’s terrifying – there’s an intense community trading fake celebrity porn, and manipulated political speeches are furthering the serious fake news epidemic. ‘Deepfakes’ are AI-edited videos, where a person’s face is superimposed onto another – everyone from Katy Perry to Vladimir Putin has become a victim. Since Motherboard first reported on the new trend at the beginning of 2018, an online crackdown against AI-assisted fake porn and other videos has been taking place. Reddit and Gfycat were some of the first platforms to begin a ‘mass purge’ of hardcore clips featuring prominent musicians and actors with their faces mapped onto porn performers. Twitter, Pornhub, and Discord soon followed, labeling the videos as “nonconsensual” – nevertheless, the volume of videos on these networks is huge and proving difficult to contain. Now, researchers at the State University of New York are work...
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