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Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos (vice.com)
On Tuesday, Pornhub told Motherboard that it considers deepfakes to be nonconsensual porn and that it will ban these videos. "Deepfakes" is a community originally named after a Redditor who enjoys face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers' bodies using a machine learning algorithm. Motherboard reports: "We do not tolerate any nonconsensual content on the site and we remove all said content as soon as we are made aware of it," a spokesperson told me in an email. "Nonconsensual content directly violates our TOS [terms of service] and consists of content such as revenge porn, deepfakes or anything published without a person's consent or permission." Pornhub previously told Mashable that it has removed deepfakes that are flagged by users. Pornhub's position on deepfakes is similar to statements made by Discord and Gfycat, and in line with its existing terms of service, which prohibit content that "impersonates another person or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person."
Judging by how often a search yields videos that have none of the tags or anything to do with the search, other than having sexual content, I don't see how they can pretend to give a crap about this.
It will be allowed, and tagged as something completely different, just like all the other videos uploaded.
So, what about all of those "porn parody" videos? Those have been sold for years by commercial studios ("Who's Nailin' Palin" comes to mind). Will they be banning all of those videos, too? Are they passing moral judgment on SNL sketches, too (like Alec Baldwin's Trump sketches), even though they are not explicit? Can we expect demands for SNL to be banned in the future?
(personally, I wouldn't mind if SNL were banned - they haven't been funny in many, many years. And even back then, their funny moments were very few and far between.)
Not entirely sure it would be considered IP infringement if you are using photos in public domain or that you've taken yourself.
The porn video used is probably copyrighted, but if you use your own amateur footage then you have the rights on it.
Defamation is possibly to go for, but if the person already has pornographic content out there then it will be hard to argue that the new video caused any harm.
You would have to argue that it would be shameful if people got the impression that you had sex with the other actor or that there is something appalling with the substitute actors body or something.
The safest bet is if the rights holder of the source content forbids the usage.
What I don't get is how Pornhub could possibly enforce the ban.
Yes, they can ban videos that ar tagged with a celebrity, but that will block both AI-edited content as well as real footage.
The problem is that it isn't just big celebrities faces that are used. People use faces of small time streamer with 100 - 1000 viewers.
There are probably a whole bunch of clips where some asshat used the face of a school mate or an ex and uses the content for blackmail or for the lulz.
To be able to sort that out Purnhub needs to match the videos against all other videos and that assumes that the clips used aren't amateur porn that haven't been wildly spread.
To some extent we have to accept that video editing have reached the point where photo editing were.
Previously it was expensive to fake a video so it would only be cost effective for political reasons. (Getting permission to mine in a natural preservation area is something worth spending a couple of hundred millions on so you can both create a fake video supporting your cause and bribe a politician to support you.)
This isn't something we can create laws to protect us from. We need to learn that video evidence is as reliable as photo evidence.
They have had and still have 'Celebrity' videos for years.
Stolen videos are OK but fake ones aren't?
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