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The video, a joint venture from Peele's Monkey Paw Productions and BuzzFeed, is meant as a PSA to warn people about the existence of deepfakes.

A little under two months after deepfakes effectively went viral, the practice has become more widespread and even easier to perform, with another Redditor creating a user - friendly piece of software known as FakeApp that lets basically anyone start training a neural network to perform these face swaps.

As the rise of r / deepfakes illustrates, it's easy for the technology to rapidly advance when many users are collectively working with and learning about it.

Before long, r / deepfakes users were building on each other's data sets to create even more convincing facial swapping models — like this training set illustrating the morphing of adult film actress Little Caprice into simulated versions of Watson and Kate Mara.

Yu started his project in 2017, when deepfakes of Nicholas Cage in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Man of Steel went viral.

Could deepfake technology, mostly known for fake porn, make it change its ways?

One of deepfakes's compatriots told Vice's Motherboard site in January that he intends to democratize this work.

The advent of «deepfake» technology, which lets video editors map anyone's face onto any other person's body, has chilling repercussions.

Deepfakes are most commonly created with the free AI software, FakeApp, that was popularized in forums dedicated to the sharing of fake videos on Reddit and Discord, and first reported on by Motherboard in December 2017.

«So the good news is it still requires a decent amount of skill, processing power, and time to create a really good «deepfake,»» said BuzzFeed's news - media editor, Craig Silverman, in a post that accompanied the video.

Peele, BuzzFeed, and Monkeypaw Productions used a controversial but widely available software to make the video, in an effort to demonstrate the dangers of «deepfakes,» aka digitally manipulated videos that have the power to «make it look like anyone is saying [or doing] anything at any point in time,» that didn't actually happen.

Vox's Aja Romano tells Sean Rameswaram how «deepfakes» are spreading across the internet.

More than 70 deepfake videos — depicting graphic fake sex scenes with Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson, and other celebrities — were easily searchable from the site's homepage using the search term «deepfake.»

It is an example of the so - called «deepfake» technology that uses advancements in AI to allow for the creation of convincing video - facsimiles of public figures with relatively few resources required.

This development, which has been the subject of much hand - wringing in the tech press, is the work of a programmer who goes by the nom de hack «deepfakes.»

The controversy around this kind of video blew up when Motherboard reported on Reddit user «deepfakes» who recreated a fake AI - powered porn featuring Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot.

Before the time of the ban, r / deepfakes had a subscriber base of more than 92,000 members.

To make matters worse, that sloppy work was outdone by a $ 500 computer and AI learning «deepfake» software, which is also being used by amateurs to replace actors» faces in films.

On Wednesday, the social platform shut down r / deepfakes and r / deepfakeNSFW, two popular hubs for the fake videos, which use algorithmic software to create virtual pornography depicting the likeness of unwilling participants.

On Wednesday, the social platform shut down r / deepfakes and r /

Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Gfycat and Pornhub, Reddit has banned the Deepfakes forum to stop the spread AI - generated...

You now get the real deal with Pornhub Is the thought of AI - generated fake porn (aka «deepfakes») disturbing to you?

Just this year, a scandal broke out on Reddit over «Deepfakes,» a technology for using artificial intelligence to digitally insert celebrities into pornographic videos, using nothing more than still photos.

Gfycat isn't even the first platform to effectively ban deepfakes, with voice chat app Discord shutting down dedicated deepfakes servers last week as the practice gained more exposure.