The video highlights the increasing pressure Facebook is under to curb the proliferation of fake news and misinformation on its platforms. The clip used similar technology to the deepfake clips. In June, a fake clip of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg which was uploaded to Instagram – also owned by Facebook – was allowed to remain on the platform.Īrtists Barnaby Francis, aka Bill Posters, and Daniel Howe created the brief video in collaboration with advertising firm Canny as part of their entry in the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, depicting Zuckerberg discussing the power of fictional organisation Spectre. Facebook does not have a policy requiring content posted on the site to be true. The clip showcased her with slurred speech, giving the impression she was drunk. The move comes after US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, spoke out in May about being the victim of a doctored video that was kept on Facebook and seen by millions of people, Market Watch reported. Last week, California lawmakers proposed a ban on deepfake videos or photos 60 days before an election. More recently, deepfakes have been used to forge videos of politicians and other public figures, making it appear that they have been in compromising positions. In the UK, deepfake porn can fall under “harassment”, but the law is not yet geared specifically to the crime. Before becoming a law however, this would go through three sets of reviews first and as a result, has not yet been passed. In April of this year, Chinese state media reported that a draft bill was being deliberated by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, saying that the use of the technology could violate individual portrait rights. The programmer behind DeepNude created an app which used a machine learning algorithm to superimpose a female naked body onto any image of a woman uploaded on the app, Motherboard reported.Įarlier this year, both China and California made moves to make deepfakes illegal. Just last week, after viral backlash, the creator of an app that undressed images of clothed women announced he would remove it. The creator behind an app which undressed pictures of women for users, has taken it down after backlash (photo: DeepNude screenshot) Since then the technology has only been getting more advanced and in some cases harder to spot as forged. The same individual had posted hardcore porn scenes with deepfakes of Scarlett Johansson, Maisie Williams, Taylor Swift and Aubrey Plaza – none of whom had given their consent.

The technology went viral around 2017, after an anonymous Reddit user known as ‘deepfakes’ posted a video of Wonderwoman‘s Gal Gadot’s face pasted onto that of a porn star’s in an incest scene, Vice reported.

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