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An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stranger-things dept.

Samantha Cole, reporting for Motherboard: In December, Motherboard discovered a Redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers' bodies. He made several convincing porn videos of celebrities -- including Gal Gadot, Maisie Williams, and Taylor Swift -- using a machine learning algorithm, his home computer, publicly available videos, and some spare time. Since we first wrote about deepfakes, the practice of producing AI-assisted fake porn has exploded. More people are creating fake celebrity porn using machine learning, and the results have become increasingly convincing. A redditor even created an app specifically designed to allow users without a computer science background to create AI-assisted fake porn. All the tools one needs to make these videos are free, readily available, and accompanied with instructions that walk novices through the process.

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  1. FINALLY by Mike+Hock · · Score: 3, Funny

    My OPRAH PORN dream is coming true !!

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    ---lame
    1. Re:FINALLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hillary pegging Bill for the nightmare win.

    2. Re:FINALLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      LOL. All of the narcissistic people who put their pictures online are going to suddenly start appearing in gay porn videos.

    3. Re:FINALLY by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 5, Funny

      Forget Bill; imagine the forbidden love of Hillary and Donald overflowing, spilling its star-crossed passion all over your screen.

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  2. "free" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    This utilizes Google's TensorFlow. As soon as they get wind of the harm and hurt this is causing the faces of celebrity women they will shut the whole project down. Paying customers of the enterprise TensorFlow plan will have 13 minutes to migrate between notification and shutdown.

  3. Oh the Humanity! by mykepredko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see who we wouldn't want to be able to visualize (in any way) having sex:
    - Ernest Borgnine
    - Marty Feldman
    - Either of the Olson twins
    - Steve Buscemi
    - Vincent Schiavelli
    - Whoopi Goldberg
    - Christopher Walken
    - Clint Howard
    - Jack Elam
    - Madonna

    I'll skiip the obvious political ones.

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  4. Can't wait by NEDHead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Trump's head, Putin's body, Ivanka, and Bannon waiting his turn

  5. Re:The only downside I see to this ... by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 3, Funny

    Incorrect. If I simply overwrite data, it's gone - it is irreversible. The simplest example is setting a pixel to black; the algorithm is completely lossy - you can never reconstruct the original pixel.

    Uncrop.

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  6. Re:The only downside I see to this ... by denzacar · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it's still not easy to deny a compelling faked photo.

    Most of them will be quite easy to deny, simply by finding and presenting the original porn video.

    Of course, that will require extensive knowledge of porn lore... or a video-frame-recognition algorithm with access to a database of all the porn ever made.
    But until such algorithm is released to the public... it is up to us, ordinary humans, to take on the thankless job of porn forensics.
    It's a dirty job. But that's what the tissues are for.

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  7. Guaranteed. Someone will reface a porn movie with by tgibson · · Score: 3, Funny

    political figures and rename it "Deep State".