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Github is banning copies of 'deepfakes' porn app DeepNude
GitHub is banning code from DeepNude, the app that used AI to create fake nude pictures of women. Motherboard, which first reported on DeepNude last month, confirmed that the Microsoft-owned software development platform won't allow DeepNude projects. GitHub told Motherboard that the code violated its rules against "sexually obscene content," and it's removed multiple repositories, including one that was officially run by DeepNude's creator.
DeepNude was originally a paid app that created nonconsensual nude pictures of women using technology similar to AI "deepfakes." The development team shut it down after Motherboard's report, saying that "the probability that people will misuse it is too high." However, as we noted last week, copies of the app were still accessible online — including on GitHub.
Late that week, the DeepNude team followed suit by uploading the core algorithm (but not the actual app interface) to the platform. "The reverse engineering of the app was already on GitHub. It no longer makes sense to hide the source code," wrote the team on a now-deleted page. "DeepNude uses an interesting method to solve a typical AI problem, so it could be useful for researchers and developers working in other fields such as fashion, cinema, and visual effects."
Also at The Register, Vice, and Fossbytes.
Previously: "Deep Nude" App Removed By Developers After Brouhaha
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(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:18AM (7 children)
The DeepNude software was made for the very specific use case of putting a head you want to see on another body you want to see. I don't think it had a "make revenge porn" button on it but it sure scared the shit out of people that it would happen. Even the original software authors didn't want to be involved with it anymore.
It's not that the software itself is not with out technical merit: they point out it uses a novel approach to solve AI problems people could learn from.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:40AM (6 children)
And that technical merit can be demonstrated in contexts not related with nudity? Or is the nudity component essential?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:05AM (4 children)
The original software author's statement claims the technology would fit in well for all video use cases. I don't know how the technology works maybe the NN was trained specifically on nipples or something. But it sounds like at least the engine is useful for non tit related things.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:22AM (3 children)
There are also navels, and other parts, slightly lower..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:56AM (1 child)
Knees?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:55PM
Ankles.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:06AM
I don't have a foot fetish
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:00AM
It has been. They demonstrated using actual Carrie Fisher's head in one of the recent Star Wars films (better than the official movie).