Social news site blocks subreddit where fake AI-created clips were first created, which had almost 100,000 usersSocial news site Reddit has banned its nearly 100,000-strong “deepfakes” community, the original source of face-swapped celebrity pornography. Reddit is where the deepfakes wave began, with one user manually creating the first AI-created video clips. These policies were previously combined in a single rule; they will now be broken out into two distinct ones. The company says that rule is now enforced as part of a broader ban on promotion of violence on the site. As public awareness of the tool increased, some in the deepfakes community coalesced around a view of itself as largely neutral harbingers of a new era in misinformation.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2018 10:18 UTC