PornHub, Twitter Ban 'Deepfake' AI-Modified Porn

It might be kind of comical to see Nicolas Cage'south face on the body of a adult female, but expect to see less of this type of content floating around on PornHub and Twitter in the future.

As Motherboard first reported, both sites are taking action against artificial intelligence-powered pornography, known as "deepfakes."

Deepfakes, for the uninitiated, are porn videos created by using a machine learning algorithm to friction match someone's confront to another person'due south body. Loads of celebrities accept had their faces used in porn scenes without their consent, and the results are about flawless. Check out the SFW case below for a better thought of what nosotros're talking about.

In a statement to PCMag on Wednesday, PornHub Vice President Corey Price said the visitor in 2022 introduced a submission form, which lets users easily flag nonconsensual content like revenge porn for removal. People have besides started using that tool to flag deepfakes, he said.

"We are taking it down as soon as we encounter the flags," Toll said. "Nosotros encourage anyone who encounters this outcome to visit our content removal page so they tin can officially make a request."

The company yet has a lot of cleaning upward to practise. Motherboard reported there are withal tons of deepfakes on PornHub.

"I was able to easily find dozens of deepfakes posted in the last few days, many under the search term 'deepfakes' or with deepfakes and the name of celebrities in the title of the video," Motherboard's Samantha Cole wrote.

Over on Twitter, meanwhile, users can now be suspended for posting deepfakes and other nonconsensual porn.

"Nosotros will suspend any account we place equally the original poster of intimate media that has been produced or distributed without the subject'southward consent," a Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard. "We volition also suspend whatever business relationship defended to posting this type of content."

The site reported that Discord and Gfycat take a similar opinion on deepfakes. For at present, these types of videos appear to be primarily circulating via Reddit, where the deepfake community currently boasts effectually 90,000 subscribers.

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