Fake porn videos featuring celebrities deleted from the internet in attempt to stop 'deepfake' footage

Fake porn videos claiming to show celebrities are being deleted from the internet. The footage – which has become infamous in recent weeks – can be made relatively simply, using just a simple application and some artificial intelligence. But they produce entirely convincing videos that are almost indistinguishable from real ones, allowing celebrities to be easily photoshopped into other footage. In large part, that technology is being used to put celebrities' faces into adult videos, allowing people to claim that the footage shows famous people making pornographic films. Now Gfycat, the San Francisco tech company that has hosted many of the videos, has said the posts are "objectionable" and that it will be removing them from the internet.