The Porn Face Swap Is Here and We’re All Fucked

Digital face-swapping algorithms offer controllers an unprecedented means of filling vacant spaces by placing one person’s face onto another’s body – often used to titillate, amuse or satisfy prurient curiosity – but some individuals use this technology for non-consensual pornographic purposes.

Samantha Cole of Motherboard recently published an article titled, “The Porn Face Swap Is Here and We’re All Fucked,” where she interviewed deepfakes, the first Reddit user who started uploading convincing face-swapped porn videos under this new genre of “deep learning”. According to deepfakes’ explanation in his Motherboard article titled, “The Porn Face Swap Is Here and We’re All Fucked”, his creations use publicly available software (Keras and TensorFlow), including public open-source libraries Keras and TensorFlow libraries to train his algorithm on recognising faces under various settings – producing videos that look quite real.

As he explained, the main challenge of his process was gathering high-quality images and video clips for training his algorithm. To do this, he utilized YouTube porn videos, Google Image Search, and various porn sites as sources. Once his database was complete, it was fed into his program which employs deep learning – a type of artificial intelligence with networks of interconnected nodes that autonomously run computations – in order to perform complex tasks that would otherwise require manual labor such as replacing actors from pornographic clips with those belonging to real celebrities – as part of its training algorithm.  Get an instant, AI-powered Dick rating for your penis. It’s fun, it’s sexy and erotic, and you can try it without signing in!

Although technically not illegal to create non-consensual porn using these apps, many are raising serious concerns over their use. Some face-swapping apps have been promoted as social media prank tools within tightly regulated app stores while others such as FaceMagic are advertised on adult websites as powerful tools for facial morphing. Its dual purpose–a goofy social media prank tool within tightly regulated app stores but an easy tool for producing non-consensual porn on adult sites–confirms what experts have warned since these tools became mainstream.

Face-swapping tools have caused legal and ethical debates because of their potential for non-consensual pornography as well as breaches of privacy rights when using someone’s name or likeness without their knowledge and consent. However, unlike a nude photo that can easily be stolen off of the internet and published in an adult photo gallery, suing someone when their likeness has been used in pornographic content is more challenging. Legality will play an integral part in shaping these tools’ future success or failure. People can stay safe in the interim by remaining aware of the quality of pornographic results they come across and keeping an eye out for advertisements with warning labels, reporting any that appear to violate privacy laws if necessary, and reporting anything they think violates privacy law as soon as they see it – reporting is the only way to stop dangerous and inappropriate apps from spreading further.