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02-08-2018, 04:13 AM
Reddit finally banned the 'Deepfakes' subreddit, where face-swap porn thrived
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When it comes to the nonconsensual stitching of women's faces into porn videos, it turns out Reddit has finally had enough.*
On Feb. 7, the company banned the subreddit known as r/deepfakes. The community, which had gathered over 80,000 subscribers in its short existence, promoted a form of face-swap technology that allowed people to realistically superimpose one face over another in a video clip, prompting many to depict celebrity women in hardcore pornography they hadn't consented to.*
SEE ALSO: A guide to 'deepfakes,' the internet's latest moral crisis (http://mashable.com/2018/02/02/what-are-deepfakes/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source)
The technology has some scary implications, and allowing a community to thrive around it was apparently just one step too far for Reddit. Though the company did not respond to requests for comment from Mashable or Motherboard (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/neqb98/reddit-shuts-down-deepfakes) in the past two weeks, a message posted to the deepfakes page makes its intentions clear. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/07/deep-fakes-reddit-ban/)
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When it comes to the nonconsensual stitching of women's faces into porn videos, it turns out Reddit has finally had enough.*
On Feb. 7, the company banned the subreddit known as r/deepfakes. The community, which had gathered over 80,000 subscribers in its short existence, promoted a form of face-swap technology that allowed people to realistically superimpose one face over another in a video clip, prompting many to depict celebrity women in hardcore pornography they hadn't consented to.*
SEE ALSO: A guide to 'deepfakes,' the internet's latest moral crisis (http://mashable.com/2018/02/02/what-are-deepfakes/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source)
The technology has some scary implications, and allowing a community to thrive around it was apparently just one step too far for Reddit. Though the company did not respond to requests for comment from Mashable or Motherboard (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/neqb98/reddit-shuts-down-deepfakes) in the past two weeks, a message posted to the deepfakes page makes its intentions clear. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/07/deep-fakes-reddit-ban/)
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