I Paid $30 to Create a Deepfake Porn of Myself
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb55p8/i-paid-dollar30-to-create-a-deepfake-porn-of-myself
While lawmakers continue to debate how to prevent deepfakes from spreading misinformation and defaming political figures, private citizens are left to grapple with the growing scale and accessibility of the technology, which is most often used to create nonconsensual, fake porn.
Deepfakes are digitally altered images that use machine learning algorithms to swap one person’s face for another’s. When they first appeared in late 2017, the term ‘deepfake’ was coined from its creator's Reddit username. He claimed to be hobbyist programmer, and was posting his creations to a subreddit devoted to photoshopping female celebrities' faces onto porn performers' bodies. Deepfakes became the subject of a now-banned subreddit, dominated by what Reddit called “involuntary fake pornography.”