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Even to date, Colab is apparently only ‘triggered’ by attempts to run DeepFaceLab (DFL), the most popular deepfakes software in the world (and the one most closely associated with AI porn), rather than less-frequented implementations such as FaceSwap, which is better-reputed, even though it performs exactly the same tasks as DFL. Two weeks ago it came to light (and much discussion) that Google had suddenly banned deepfake-creation software from its popular Colab cloud processing environments. The ‘Innocent’ Appearance of the Deepfake Process and Ecostructure Most of the content at this subreddit, and at the larger r/SFWdeepfakes is concerned with using deepfake technology to ‘recast’ actors from popular or classic movies, or otherwise to have some more innocuous AI-driven fun with popular media and deepfake technology, and do indeed qualify as ‘SFW’.Įven though many such posts skirt perilously close to copyright-driven bans, the continuing survival of ‘IP-appropriated’ non-porn deepfake video posts by major YouTube deepfakers such as Ctrl-Shift-Face suggest a broad studio and rights-holder tolerance towards such activity, at least for the time being. Presumably the only way to slow down the likelihood of such requests in SFW deepfake subreddits would therefore be to ban users who have ‘earned’ this classification.) ( EDIT, Tuesday, J– A moderator at r/DeepFakesSFW has responded, stating ‘It seems to happen when the user’s account is NSFW’. I reached out to the sole listed moderator of r/DeepFakesSFW about this, and will post any available updates. Therefore the NSFW tags at r/DeepFakesSFW seem to have either been applied by moderators at the forum or by higher-level admins – or even algorithms, possibly without any intervention or available opposition by local moderators. If so, then the not-yet-banned r/DeepFakesSFW may be living on borrowed time its two current top posts when entering the root subreddit URL with the ‘old’ Reddit theme enabled have been specifically marked ‘NSFW’ (a tag that should presumably not even be available in this particular community).Īvailable ‘flairs’ when posting to r/DeepFakesSFW. This suggests that the remaining ‘SFW’ Reddit subs survive by the speed, diligence and fast response times of their moderators, since it seems that Reddit is unwilling to become a kind of ‘classified ad’ forum for people to connect and transact illegitimate deepfakes via DMs (in cases where this cannot be explicitly requested in a post). Though the posts that these RSS posts point to are no longer available, clicking the requesters’ profile links (blurred out in image above) reveals that many of the posters request banned deepfake content across more than one forum, and are either asking for or offering some of the most extreme content of this type, including incest porn and various shades of involuntary pornographic themes. Some of the final, clearly NSFW posts from the now-dead r/deepfakesfw subreddit. “deepfakes” or “bubble porn”) is also against the Rule.’īased on the last available RSS feeds from the now-banned SFW sub, it has been the requesting rather than the posting of NSFW deepfake content that has finally triggered the ban: ‘ or video of another person posted for the specific purpose of faking explicit content or soliciting “lookalike” pornography (e.g. Reddit’s rules on Sexually Explicit Media state: What appears to have doomed r/deepfakesfw was not the posting but the requesting of deepfake pornography. The most popular ‘legitimate’ SFW deepfakes community appears currently to be r/SFWdeepfakes, which at the time of writing has 16,636 readers (snapshot taken Monday, June 13, 2022). That’s actually a higher number of subscribers than r/DeepFakesSFW (note the extra ‘s’), which currently has 2,827 readers (archive snapshot taken Monday, June 13, 2022).

The r/deepfakesfw sub was not frequently archived by popular conservation platforms, but the most recent WayBack Machine snapshot, taken around ten days ago (on 3rd June 2022), indicates that the sub had 3,095 readers at that time.

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