One of the most popular threads on the Deepfakes subreddit claims the practice isn't necessarily bad. MegaCams, the firm behind the face-matching tool, told The Memo: 'The matter if this is ethical or not is our call, it’s up to the user using it.' In the same way that non-consensual sex abuse images are put online – often known colloquially as 'revenge porn' – this AI system could easily be used to create fake pornographic videos as a means of harassment.Ī separate tool, created by a pornographic website, can also be used to match the faces of friends or celebrities with porn stars – adding another tool to an increasingly concerning arsenal. But the way the AI-powered system works means it could be used to add any face to any video. Above is a thread titled: 'Blowjobs when?'.Īt present, the FakeApp is mostly being used to add the faces of female celebrities to existing porn videos. One conversation asks about existing databases of images to be used in the machine learning process, while another questions what the minimum GPU requirement is. The Deepfakes subreddit itself is mixed with non-consensual fake videos of celebrities and people with questions about AI. When this is complete, it can then be added to the individual frames of video. A machine learning algorithm is then trained to shape and position the face. Two types of content are needed to produce a video: the original footage a person wants to transplant a head onto and a database of images or videos of the person's head they want to transplant into the video. But Max Campbell, a defamation, privacy and harassment solicitor at Brett Wilson LLP says people creating such videos could be charged with a number of criminal offences and civil proceedings. There isn't a specific offence that covers creation of fake non-consensual images. In the UK, the law around faked sexual images and videos is murky. In 2015, two teenage boys in India were arrested for creating fake videos of other actresses. In a long list of examples, Indian actress Jyothi Krishna has also spoken out about her photo being used in fake pornographic image. The incident only came to light after he was arrested for invading the privacy of another woman. The pictures were initially taken from her MySpace account and the man accused of creating them faces trial. The man described them as artworks.Ī North Jersey woman has also spoken out about how potential employers found forged nude images of her online.

Earlier this month, an Australian man was sentenced to 12 months in jail after Photoshopping images of his stepdaughter onto images of women engaged in sexual acts and beastiality.

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