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Related: About this forumA horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/13/1035449/ai-deepfake-app-face-swaps-women-into-porn/MIT Technology Review has chosen not to name the service, which we will call Y, or use any direct quotes and screenshots of its contents, to avoid driving traffic to the site. It was discovered and brought to our attention by deepfake researcher Henry Ajder, who has been tracking the evolution and rise of synthetic media online.
Y bills itself as a safe and responsible tool for exploring sexual fantasies. The language on the site encourages users to upload their own face. But nothing prevents them from uploading other peoples faces, and comments on online forums suggest that users have already been doing just that.
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The consequences for women and girls targeted by such activity can be crushing. At a psychological level, these videos can feel as violating as revenge pornreal intimate videos filmed or released without consent. This kind of abusewhere people misrepresent your identity, name, reputation, and alter it in such violating waysshatters you to the core, says Noelle Martin, an Australian activist who has been targeted by a deepfake porn campaign.
And the repercussions can stay with victims for life.
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A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click (Original Post)
janterry
Sep 2021
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TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)1. Why wouldn't it be used on guys too?
While it probably would be less common, men and boys could face similar repercussions if targeted as well.
janterry
(4,429 posts)2. Could it be done? Sure. But this isn't what happens
Per the article:
To this day, the research company Sensity AI estimates, between 90% and 95% of all online deepfake videos are nonconsensual porn, and around 90% of those feature women
I'm afraid oppression remains sex based
Journeyman
(15,207 posts)3. And I suspect the men featured in the videos will do it to themselves . . .
so they can picture themselves as more well-endowed and domineering.
Even then, I imagine most of those videos would have an audience of one at most, whereas the videos featuring violated women will be either posted to the web or passed around among those who know her.