Selling AI-Generated Fake Porn Is (Probably) a Good Way to Get Sued
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x799b/selling-ai-generated-fake-porn-is-probably-a-good-way-to-get-sued
Until last week, people in Reddit's deepfakes community, which creates fake porn videos of celebrities using a machine learning algorithm, have been content to post their work for free, framing it as their hobby. But increasingly, they’re taking the opportunity to make a buck off of nonconsenting women’s likenesses, by selling face-swapped fake porn creations for cryptocurrency.
In the weeks since we first reported on it, the r/deepfakes subreddit—home base for AI-generated fake porn videos, mostly of unconsenting celebrities—has exploded to more than 85,000 subscribers. Users have spun several subreddits out from the original subreddit, like r/deepfakesNSFW, r/FakeApp, and r/VideoFakes.
This does not surprise me. People have a right to their likeness.