AI-Generated Fake Porn Makers Have Been Kicked Off Their Favorite Host

The most popular hosting site for "deepfakes" is now actively removing fake porn gifs from its site. "Deepfakes" are fake porn videos generated using a machine learning algorithm, allowing people swap the faces of celebrities--or their friends and acquaintances--onto the bodies of porn performers. The form has gone viral over the last few weeks as they have become easier to make. Tuesday, users in the r/deepfakes subreddit started noticing that some of the gifs uploaded to image hosting platform Gfycat were removed. Gfycat is similar to Imgur and several other sites in that it is a popular place to host media that is posted to Reddit (and elsewhere on the web).