Fake celeb porn videos made with AI app are finally being deleted from the internet
PHONEY porno clips featuring top celebrities like Emma Watson and Taylor Swift are being scrubbed from the internet – after being live online for weeks.
The so-called "deepfakes" are creating using a free online porn app that uses artifical intelligence to paste the faces of famous female stars onto porn stars in XXX videos.
The videos have been flooding a seedy Reddit forum for the past few weeks, almost always hosted by a San Francisco-based clip site called Gfycat.
But Gfycat has since blasted the videos as "objectionable", and has vowed to clear them off the web for good.
The videos featured a host of top actresses, including Jennifer Lawrence, Katy Perry, Cara Delevigne, and Game of Thrones teen stars Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams.
These videos are created using the app, and them uploaded to a subreddit dedicated to fake celeb sex tapes using Gfycat.
In a statement, Gfycat said: "Our terms of service allow us to remove content that we find objectionable."
It added: "We are actively removing this content."
Reddit, which provides links to the software, has still declined to comment on the matter more than a week after The Sun found that creating and hosting these videos could be "unlawful".
Speaking to The Sun, LSE Law Professor Andrew Murray said: "To put the fact of an identifiable person onto images of others and then sharing them publicly is a breach of Data Protection Law.
"Should the images be received as genuine images and the celebrity, as a result, is viewed less favourably by members of society then they could sue for defamation if it was shown to have harmed their reputation."
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He offered the example of "a celebrity with a 'clean' image, such as Emma Watson", who was one of the stars targeted by the faux smut clips.
Simon Miles, of intellectual property specialists Edwin Coe, told The Sun that the fake sex tapes could be considered an "unlawful intrusion" into the privacy of a celeb.
He also added that celebrities could request that the content be taken down, but warned: "The difficulty is that damage has already been done."