Gfycat starts removing fake AI porn GIFs from its platform

Popular GIF hosting and creation site Gfycat has come out against the rising new trend of artificial intelligence-generated fake pornography. Colloquially known as “deepfakes,” after the Reddit user who popularized the technique back in December, these short-form videos typically feature porn stars with the faces of celebrities, with the face swapping achieved by feeding a neural network with thousands of photos and videos and then training the network using popular, open source machine learning techniques.

News of Gfycat’s stance on deepfakes was first reported by Motherboard, which also first reported on the existence of deepfakes, as well as the subreddit dedicated to the practice and its growing popularity.

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