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An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com)
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.
Really shouldn't be a big problem. As with any computer type of computer operation you should be able to reverse the algorithm to obtain the original footage if you suspect it has been altered. Doctored evidence has been around for as long as there have been trials and it's easily identified and dealt with.