Twitter and Pornhub ban 'deepfake' face-swap porn videos

Films depicting celebrities' faces superimposed on to adult film actors using AI also banned from Gfycat, but not Reddit Wed 7 Feb 2018 05.38 EST Last modified on Wed 7 Feb 2018 05.39 EST Twitter and Pornhub have become the latest platforms to ban pornography made using AI-generated face-swap technology – known as "deepfakes" – as non-consensual porn. There has been an explosion in the creation of videos that use cutting-edge machine learning techniques to superimpose the faces of female celebrities on to explicit clips, due to the release of a desktop app that streamlines the process in January. But critics have condemned the videos as tantamount to revenge porn – an accusation which appears to have stuck. Gif hosting service Gfycat, which was the most popular way of sharing the short pornographic clips, also banned them, citing terms of service (TOS) that allows it to remove "objectionable" content. Now, adult entertainment site Pornhub and Twitter have followed Gfycat in banning the content.