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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, @05:05PM
I think the answer to that one is a clear and resounding YES!!!!!!! And we can look no further than Youtube over the past couple years for this. The first step was to kick off far right people that are extremely hard for the majority of the population to feel sympathy for to set a precedent that this is ok because no one is going to defend them. It only took about 1.5 years before the left leaning political talk shows on Youtube have started screaming like a stuck pig that Youtube is censoring them now and not the conservatives they wanted censored before. For instance David Pakman is going on a tirade right now about how his show might have to go away because of the absolutely "disgusting" behvaior of Youtube taking recommendations that had his content in it before and handing those over to people like NBC and Fox.
I thought previously Google/Youtube/Alphabet had it out for conservatives and was trying to oppress them. Now I'm pretty sure they just used them as a convenient tool to set precedents so they can turn Youtube into a place where no one says something unless Pepsi deems it inoffensive enough to want to fund advertising on it.