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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: 5, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:33AM (1 child)
Reminds me of an old episode of the TV series Night Court, involving some supposed "princess" from an exotic tropical island where nudity was normal and socially accepted. There were all of these jokes in the episode about how her culture apparently fetishized wearing clothing, with some character remarking he was "dressing you with my eyes..." and another character spontaneously donning an overcoat to titillate that fetish.
While silly (and definitely non-PC by today's standards), that episode really made an impact on my younger self decades ago, as it made me aware of how social conventions can be relative, including the deeply-ingrained American prudish (and simultaneously fetishized) attitude toward naked bodies. Since then, it often amazes me how worried American culture is about nudity and its supposed corrupting influence, which simultaneously drives fetishes and crap exactly like this DeepNude thing.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 11 2019, @11:25AM
Conservative religion: propping up the value of the Porn industry since 1604.
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