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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: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:29AM (1 child)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:29AM (#865753) Homepage Journal

    I'm not quite sure what you mean here. What conventions are changing? Is the community the opensource community?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:48PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:48PM (#865992) Journal

    I'm not quite sure what you mean here.

    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)

    What conventions are changing?

    The values/behaviour of the people around.

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    Look, i was trying to answer between the lines to your

    Do you think that censorship is bad?

    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'

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford