Fake porn is the new fake news, and the internet isn’t ready
Ever since Facebook finally admitted to having a fake news problem , it's been trying to fix it. It hired thousands of people to help block fake ads, pledged to work with t hird-party fact-checking organizations and is busy building algorithms to detect fake news. But even as it attempts to fight back against fraudulent ads and made-up facts, another potential fake news threat looms on the horizon: Artificially generated fake video. Motherboard recently uncovered a disturbing new trend on Reddit, where users create AI-generated pornographic clips by swapping other people's faces onto porn stars. The outlet first reported on the phenomenon a month ago when Reddit user "deepfakes" posted a video of Gal Gadot's face swapped onto a porn star's body (he's since created more fake porn with other celebrities). According to Motherboard , the video was created with machine learning algorithms, easily accessible open-source libraries and images from Google, ...