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: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:38AM (6 children)
So, the adult entertainment industry should be able and likely be interested in hosting the software, isn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:59AM (5 children)
That was my first thought.
An industry with somewhat flexible morals, and who are early adopters of technology. It seems tailor-made for them.
I'm sure there would be lots of money in Theresa May porn. (For example).
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:16AM (4 children)
Ewww.
But yeah, to each their own (way to float their boat).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:10AM (3 children)
All fun and games, until I came across the live action vid that appeared to be the head of janrinock on the torso of the Buzzard, with the ass of takyon, and mrpg's legs, having carnal knowledge of a durian fruit with the head of Sean Hannity on it. Used all the brain bleach in house, have ordered a tanker more of it. May not be enough. The HORROR! The HORROR.
(If you do not make DeepNude your friend, it is a formidable enemy. Like a diamond bullet through you mind. Or what's left of your mind.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:38AM (2 children)
Dear hunter, just stay out of Russian roulette.
A common full metal jacket will drive you mindless and with a thousand-yards-stare all the same.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:20AM (1 child)
You have just conflated at least three Vietnam war movies, where Americans try to deal with their major malfunction. DeepFake? Black Mirror, "Men Under Fire". Got's Runaway1956 in it, I swear!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:25PM
Nope. Fictional reality.