What Are Deepfakes? Reddit Bans Community Posting Fake Porn

After outcries from users and efforts by other social media platforms to ban the content, Reddit has finally taken action against a community in which users posted fake porn generated by artificial intelligence-powered tools. The community, called deepfakes, contained spliced together content to create photo-realistic images and videos of celebrities and other people appearing in pornographic scenes. The community had amassed nearly 100,000 subscribers before it was shut down. Reddit banned the fake porn community Deepfakes. "Reddit strives to be a welcoming, open platform for all by trusting our users to maintain an environment that cultivates genuine conversation. As of February 7, 2018, we have made two updates to our site-wide policy regarding involuntary pornography and sexual or suggestive content involving minors," a spokesperson for Reddit told International Business times.