Reddit bans Deepfakes community that made AI-generated celebrity porn

Feb08

by Sindy Cator on February 8, 2018 at 10:12 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Reddit is no longer tolerating the bizarre Deepfakes trend that shaped up on its platform: the company has banned the controversial forum that churned out heaps of fake celebrity porn entirely generated by an AI. In addition to the main Deepfakes subreddit which attracted more than 90,000 subscribers, the “front page of the internet” has also banned its NSFW sibling – Deepfakes_NSFW – which focused specifically on smut montages. Both subreddits were closed on February 7. “This community has been banned,” reads a message on both forums. “This subreddit was banned due to a violation of our content polict, specifically our…