{"id":399390,"date":"2018-02-07T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399390"},"modified":"2018-02-07T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:39:02","slug":"deepfake-pornographic-videos-banned-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/deepfake-pornographic-videos-banned-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepfake pornographic videos banned by Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twitter is the latest platform to ban a new type of pornographic video that replaces the original actor’s face with that of another person.<\/p>\n
The clips, known as deepfakes, typically use the features of female TV personalities, actors and pop singers.<\/p>\n
Unlike some social networks, Twitter\u00a0allows hardcore pornography\u00a0on its platform.<\/p>\n
But it said deepfakes broke its rules against intimate images that featured a subject without their consent.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco-based company acted six hours after a Twitter account dedicated to publishing deepfake clips was publicised on a Reddit forum.<\/p>\n
News site Motherboard was first to report the development.<\/p>\n
“We will suspend any account we identify as the original poster of intimate media that has been produced or distributed without the subject’s consent,” Twitter told Motherboard.<\/p>\n
It added that “deepfakes fall solidly” within the type of clips banned\u00a0by its intimate media policy.<\/p>\n
The development followed an announcement by Pornhub that it too would remove deepfake clips brought to its attention.<\/p>\n
Until now, the adult site had been a popular source for the material, with some deepfake videos attracting tens of thousands of views.<\/p>\n
Video-hosting service Gfycat and chat service Discord had already taken similar action.<\/p>\n
Simple software<\/strong><\/p>\n Deepfakes involve the use of artificial intelligence software to create a computer-generated version of a subject’s face that closely matches the original expressions of another person in a video.<\/p>\n