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August 29, 2018

Tumblr Platform to Ban ‘Deepfakes’ Porn, as Well as ‘Creepshots’

CYBERSPACE—Eight months after the online forum Reddit, where so-called “deepfakes” porn videos first appeared, began removing the artificial intelligence fake porn videos from the site, the social media platform Tumblr has finally announced a crackdown on non-consensual sexual images on the “microblogging” site. “Posting sexually explicit photos of people without their consent was never allowed on Tumblr,” the site wrote in a statement posted this week. “But with the invention of deepfakes and the proliferation of non-consensual creepshots, we are updating our Community Guidelines to more clearly address new technologies that can be used to humiliate and threaten other people.” “Deepfakes” are forged porn clips generated by widely available AI apps, in which the face of an unsuspecting person, usually a celebrity, is realistically superimposed onto existing porn footage. Neither the celebrities nor the performers in the underlying porn videos consent to the use of their likenesses, generally. The “creepshots” mentioned in the Tumblr statement are a different issue, but also involve non-consensual images. “Creepshots” are photos taken of women in public places without their knowledge in poses that inadvertently appear sexual. “A creepshot is focused on women’s clothed bodies. Images are sexually suggestive rather than sexually explicit,” The Conversation site explained. According to a report by The Daily Dot, when Yahoo! bought the Tumblr platform in 2013, it began pressuring the site to remove sexually explicit content—but because porn has an enthusiastic following on Tumblr, the adult-content sections of Tumblr continue to thrive. But the new guidelines will “ensure it’s a safe space populated with only consensual images,” Daily Dot wrote. The first deepfakes videos, including a widely circulated clip that imposed the face of Wonder Woman star Gal Godot onto a Fleshlight porn video, began appearing on Reddit late last year. But in February, Reddit announced that it would remove images and videos of what it called “involuntary pornography,” which it defined as, “depicting any person in a state of nudity or engaged in any act of sexual conduct apparently created or posted without their permission, including depictions that have been faked.” Reddit specifically included “creepshots” in the new ban, though the women in those non-consensual images are clothed and not engaged in overtly sexual acts, but are nonetheless “posted without their permission and contextualized in a salacious manner,” Reddit’s statement said. The new Tumblr rules are set to take effect on September 10. Image via SendVids ScreenShot

 
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