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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."
Just for the lulz :)
Also it would be one hell of an improvement
Why hasn't anyone murdered that bloated orange moron yet?
Also could someone please drag ajit pai out into the streets and beat him to death publicly with a ton of cell phone videos going. I want to watch it with popcorn a few times.
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.
Damn
Just so long as they are commercially generated, and not computer generated? :-D
Also: Between the two, at least deepfakes isn't trying to monetize the content while also demonetizing the porn actors/actresses. Go read up on what pornhub has been doing to become a 'titan of industry'... all the while sluggishly removing actual infringing content when it suited them to get ahead.
I love how every shitty company and their dog always point to their ToS like it's the word of god.. As if anybody gives a tiny rat's ass about them.
I am profoundly relieved, because that nasty Scarlett Johansson person will be unable to post videos featuring my face grafted onto the bodies of her lovers. The chance that my dignity might be outraged in this way been worrying me ever since "deepfakes" became a thing.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
You are using an algorithm to appropriate the likeness of another person without their consent. The wording they've chosen, intentionally or not, makes it sound more like rape when it's really just a matter of defamation and IP infringement.
The need to shoehorn every sexual matter into "consent" to determine the moral qualities is like how everyone goes "muh dumbocracy" over everything they don't like that a legitimately elected government does. These terms get so overloaded with rhetorical baggage that they become meaningless.
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.)
How does this play into films using cgi versions of actors faces?
...to go elsewhere, is what you're saying. They'll be back once they're more commonly accepted.
A new cause for /. readers!
Considering that the resultant porn is not illegal all they're doing is encouraging someone to start up www.ai-gen-porn.com and make money off of it. My prediction for this sort of thing is that it will eventually be more popular than regular porn - who wants to see some random person get fucked when they can fap it to celebrity of their choice?
pornhub has a spam problem yet they get rid of a small handful of videos that nobody really cares about.
You just give the opportunity for others to make their fortune with such a site that promotes these thing.. .There is a big demand for such a thing and it is going to be an easy task in the near future to create and use such a tool.
"...which prohibit content that "impersonates another person or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person."
Does that mean Santa Claus videos are going to be removed?
They have had and still have 'Celebrity' videos for years.
Stolen videos are OK but fake ones aren't?
https://www.pornhub.com/video?...
1. No point in closing the barn door now.
2. Pornhub "We though it was a real celeb leak"
3. Pamela Anderson "No that is not my leak, that is a deep faked thingie"
4. Do they have big plans to spend 0$ to actually remove them?
5. Is the internet classic with Arnold Schwarzenegger's face on one of 2 screwing pit bulls, that then barfs, now going to get banned?
6. Well that was back in 2018. now that it is 2020 there is no way to tell. It is like Photoshop now.
I think, perhaps cynically, that this has little to nothing to do with any 'Terms of Service', anyones' rights, or anything like that, I think this has to do with PornHub not wanting to get the living daylights sued out of them by celebrities (and perhaps media companies they work for) whose faces have been pasted onto someone making a porn video.
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Given that the vast majority of PornHub's content is copyrighted material posted without the consent of the copyright holders, shouldn't they probably go out of business?
You mean that wasn't Scarlett Johansson in that video I watched.
Embrace the fakeness. Smart AI in the future will make everything fake.