AI tools will make it easy to create fake porn of just about anybody
With nothing more than a few photographs and some free software, it’s now possible to quickly graft anyone’s face onto pornographic images, videos, and GIFs. The results are far from convincing, but they’ll get better fast — becoming another example of how machine learning will make the maxim “seeing is believing” laughably out-of-date.
As first reported by Motherboard, a Reddit user named “deepfakes” has been applying these tools to create content for the pornographic subreddit r/celebfakes. Using a combination of open-source AI software — including Google’s TensorFlow — deepfakes pasted the faces of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Taylor Swift, and Maisie Williams onto X-rated GIFS. He even created a full video with the face of W…
