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posted by martyb on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:53AM   Printer-friendly
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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: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:23AM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:23AM (#865676)

    Yeah, trying to think out of the box here. Once you see enough examples you realize pretty much everything in the "standard history" is bullcrap. So did these networks exist in government labs earlier (doing what?) and were pushed out before anybody had any idea how dangerous they were, because somebody's jimmies were seriously rustled, or was it just one big coinkeydink it started hitting the mass media almost exactly when the whole "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory (hint: Epstein's Lolita Express and Pedo Island are cornerstones of the theory) exploded onto 4chan.

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  • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:41AM (3 children)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:41AM (#865697) Homepage Journal

    Once you see enough examples you realize pretty much everything in the "standard history" is bullcrap.

    Aint that the truth! But I honestly have no idea what you are talking about aside from this obviously involves Hillary. I basically give zero fucks about Hillary but if you feel like elucidating about this I will read it.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by jmorris on Thursday July 11 2019, @08:11AM (2 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Thursday July 11 2019, @08:11AM (#865734)

      Oh it is far bigger than the Clintons. The more fringe parts of the theory get really nuts but the generally agreed core is, reduced to the short attention span version is:

      There is a Cabal running the world (choose your secret society(s), all of em are tossed around as theories by various camps, yes all the way to fucking Grays.) and they do vile stuff. Human sacrifice, ritual child rape, stuff so vile one hesitates to even repeat it. 4chan got an imagination, yo. Part of the game is anybody who is anybody has to get initiated into the thing by doing something so vile they are forever damned, would go to prison for several lifetimes, etc. if discovered, etc. And starting sometime in the 20th Century they began filming it for blackmail to ensure nobody ever talked. Guys like Epstein were central, they had the Pedo Island with the spooky Temple building and stuff, all wired for video. And you can't have a world spanning conspiracy without some Rothchilds and such sprinkled in. Pizzagate was the initial discovery of part of that network centered around the Clintons, Podestas, Comet Ping Pong and Pizza, the "Spirit Cooking" witch chick, importing children from Haiti under cover of the Clinton Foundation, etc. But the theory quickly expanded as the autists kept digging. Then Q showed up and began dropping bread crumbs to guide the digging. Supposedly Q represents a "conspiracy of light" aimed at stopping the evil. There is enough material for several blockbuster movies filled with stuff so out there the craziest screenwriter would go "nah, nobody would buy this crap" but it keeps growing on, now, 8chan.

      Up until now it was just a conspiracy theory with a lot of smoke here and there but no visible fire. Qanon kept promising big things but nothing ever actually happened, no big reveals, etc. Easy enough to dismiss as just a LARP on the chans, keeps the autism occupied and out of trouble at least.

      And now the Epstein part is probably true. Enough smoke around the Weiner laptop to guess it is probably a "nuke half the Democratic Party and a good chunk of the Republicans" event if it ever got to WikiLeaks. And somebody really wants to discredit the idea of video evidence. Is all of it true? Not possible since some of the theories contradict other parts, but a creeping feeling grows that more of it than is safe for sanity might be. Long time readers will remember me saying quite a way back that the best explanation for Prog behavior is to assume the mother of all Devil cults got spun up at Harvard a long time ago. Which would sorta fit, only not pessimistic enough.

      Time to focus "thoughts and prayers" on Yellowstone. It could clean this world up. :)

      • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:49AM (1 child)

        by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:49AM (#865756) Homepage Journal

        So I know 4chan has done some pretty damn good investigations on topics other than secret satanic child abuse cults; those are some quality autists. But how did they come to form any conviction on this topic?

        Regarding the pizza joint: didn't a guy head there with guns to check it out and collect the kids from the basement? And when he got there the basement was gone? That's pretty telling don't you think? How connected are these people that they can fill in an entire basement in with very little warning???!!!

        In honesty though that part seemed weird to me. Like maybe they aren't correct.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:11PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @01:11PM (#865789)

          Another group identifying as Anonymous going by @OpDeathEaters [twitter.com] claims Pizzagate/QAnon were invented to hide the true allegations of child rape among ridiculous sounding false ones in order to protect Epstein and whoever was involved with him: 1 [twitter.com] 2 [twitter.com].

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:59AM (#865717)

    Yeah, trying to think out of the box here.

    Of course you are. And failing miserably, as usual. Fascist box, is it?