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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, @07:33AM (3 children)
This entire discussion reminds me of when conservatives absolutely freak out with the terms positive and negative liberty because their chosen form of liberty is labeled as "negative" so fuck those guys they are making judgement about my politics!
Do you think that censorship is bad?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:44AM (2 children)
I think the common sense should push many people in a common-sense type of self-censoring grafted on a "live and let live" attitude.
In the older days, these were called something like "respect" and "the traditions of the place". Rules that were not laws, but social conventions that made the community work with less frictions.
I feel sometimes we (as humanity) are losing more than we are gaining by breaking them and letting them behind us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:29AM (1 child)
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. What conventions are changing? Is the community the opensource community?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:48PM
Self-censoring in everyday life. Called 'civilized behaviour' otherwise. Dependent on good proportion on the values of people that make your social circle (open source included, if one is involved in open source)
The values/behaviour of the people around.
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Look, i was trying to answer between the lines to your
Now, to put it bluntly, the brief answer is 'Yes, I think censorship is bad, but I also think there are things much worse than censorship, even in so-called civilized world'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford