Deepfakes a portmanteau of " deep learning " and "fake" [1] are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else's likeness using artificial neural networks. The development of deepfakes has taken place to a large extent in two settings: research at academic institutions and development by amateurs in online communities. Academic research related to deepfakes lies predominantly within the field of computer vision , a subfield of computer science. Contemporary academic projects have focused on creating more realistic videos and on improving techniques. In August , researchers at the University of California, Berkeley published a paper introducing a fake dancing app that can create the impression of masterful dancing ability using AI. The term deepfakes originated around the end of from a Reddit user named "deepfakes".
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Call for a ban on making fake pornographic images of real people | Daily Mail Online
Earlier this week, we reported on a subreddit called "deepfakes," a growing community of redditors who create fake porn videos of celebrities using existing video footage and a machine learning algorithm. This algorithm is able to take the face of a celebrity from a publicly available video and seamlessly paste it onto the body of a porn performer. Often, the resulting videos are nearly indecipherable from reality. One of the worst-case uses of this technology raised by computer scientists and ethicists I talked to is already happening. People are talking about, and in some cases actively using, this app to create fake porn videos of people they know in real life—friends, casual acquaintances, exes, classmates—without their permission. Some users in a deepfakes Discord chatroom where enthusiasts were trading tips claimed to be actively creating videos of people they know: women they went to high school with, for example. Even more people on Reddit and Discord are thinking aloud about the possibilities of creating fake porn videos of their crushes or exes, and asking for advice on the best ways to do it:.
People Are Using AI to Create Fake Porn of Their Friends and Classmates
She is also a member of the board of directors of Our Watch, Australia's independent organisation of the prevention of violence against women and their children. You might recognise it from the cameo of a young Princess Leia in the Star Wars film Rogue One , which used the body of another actor and footage from the first Star Wars film created 39 years earlier. The problem is that these same tools are accessible to those who seek to create non-consensual pornography of friends, work colleagues, classmates, ex-partners and complete strangers — and post it online.
A ban on making fake pornographic images of real people should be added to new laws banning upskirting, a legal expert has claimed. Theresa May has confirmed the Government will take on a campaign to outlaw the practice of people taking photographs up under other's people's clothes. A Government version of the upskirting law will be launched in Parliament today ahead of a debate and vote in the coming weeks. The move comes after Tory MP Christopher Chope sparked fury by blocking an attempt to legislate for the ban from the backbenches.