Deepfake CSAM ĭeepfake technology has made the creation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), also often referenced to as child pornography, faster, safer and easier than it has ever been. The open-source version had the advantage of allowing to be trained on a larger dataset of nude images to increase the resulting nude image's accuracy level. On GitHub, the open-source version of this program called 'open-deepnude' was deleted. On June 27 the creators removed the application and refunded consumers, although various copies of the app, both free and for charge, continue to exist. The app had both a paid and unpaid version, the paid version costing $50. In June 2019, a downloadable Windows and Linux application called DeepNude was released which used neural networks, specifically generative adversarial networks, to remove clothing from images of women. While celebrities like herself are protected by their fame, however, she believes that deepfakes pose a grave threat to women of lesser prominence who could have their reputations damaged by depiction in involuntary deepfake pornography or revenge porn. In a prepared statement, she expressed that despite concerns, she would not attempt to remove any of her deepfakes, due to her belief that they do not affect her public image and that differing laws across countries and the nature of internet culture make any attempt to remove the deepfakes 'a lost cause'. Scarlett Johansson, a frequent subject of deepfake porn, spoke publicly about the subject to The Washington Post in December 2018. In the same month, representatives from Twitter stated that they would suspend accounts suspected of posting non-consensual deepfake content. Most notably, the r/deepfakes subreddit on Reddit was banned on February 7, 2018, due to the policy violation of 'involuntary pornography'. Since then, multiple social media outlets have banned or made efforts to restrict deepfake pornography.

Since 2017, Samantha Cole of Vice has published a series of articles covering news surrounding deepfake pornography. Six weeks later, Cole wrote in a follow-up article about the large increase in AI-assisted fake pornography.

In December 2017, Samantha Cole published an article about r/deepfakes in Vice that drew the first mainstream attention to deepfakes being shared in online communities. A report published in October 2019 by Dutch cybersecurity startup Deeptrace estimated that 96% of all deepfakes online were pornographic. Other prominent pornographic deepfakes were of various other celebrities. The first one that captured attention was the Daisy Ridley deepfake, which was featured in several articles.

3 Efforts by companies to limit deepfake pornography footageĭeepfake pornography prominently surfaced on the Internet in 2017, particularly on Reddit.

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