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Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos (vice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the not-on-my-watch dept.

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."

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  1. There's no quality control on Internet porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:There's no quality control on Internet porn by nonBORG · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To take issue with the subject at hand. This is a free speech issue but you still cannot slander. This I would put in the same category. As to the rest of your comments, best ignored (enough political tainting of threads already.)

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    2. Re:There's no quality control on Internet porn by porges · · Score: 3, Funny

      the subject at hand

      I see what you did there.

  2. It took long enough! by hyades1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Just call it what it is by DeplorableCodeMonkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Just call it what it is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

  4. Re:ToS by geekmux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    A pair of handcuffs are harmless...until you find them on your wrists.

    Same goes for ToS. No one gives a tiny rat's ass about them...until you find yourself standing next to a lawyer in a courtroom spending thousands defending your ignorance regarding their word of god.

  5. Strange by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They have had and still have 'Celebrity' videos for years.
    Stolen videos are OK but fake ones aren't?

    https://www.pornhub.com/video?...