![]() ![]() “Some of this technology is improving so fast, because there's so much energy and drive, unfortunately, from the creators’ side,” Patrini says. Some videos state they were requested, while their creators say they can be paid in Bitcoin. One deepfake porn website is full of videos featuring celebrities and contains videos of Indian actresses that have been watched millions of times. The top four deepfake porn websites had received more than 134 million views last year, Sensity’s 2019 analysis shows. The majority of deepfake porn is found on, and created by, specific communities. ![]() By June this year the amount of deepfakes had climbed to 49,081. A report from Sensity released last year found 14,678 deepfake videos online in July 2019 – 96 per cent of these were porn and almost all are focussed on women. The amount of deepfakes online is growing exponentially. Read more: Deepfakes are already breaking democracy. “Content uploaded without necessary permission being obtained is in violation of our Terms of Use and will be removed once identified.” Hawkins adds that the dozens of videos appearing as deepfakes on xHamster, which were highlighted by WIRED, have been passed onto its moderation team to be reviewed.ĭeepfake upload figures seen WIRED did not include Pornhub, which is the second biggest porn website and despite banning deepfakes in 2018 still has problems with the videos. “We absolutely understand the concern around deepfakes, so we make it easy for it to be removed,” Hawkins says. There will probably never be a true picture of how many of these videos are created without people’s permission.ĭespite repeated attempts to contact representatives of XVideos and Xnxx, the owners did not answer requests for comment on their attitudes and policies towards deepfakes.Īlex Hawkins, VP of xHamster, says the company doesn’t have a specific policy for deepfakes but “treat it like any other non-consensual content.” Hawkins says that the company’s moderation process involves multiple different steps and it will remove videos if people’s images are used without permission. However, the full scale of the problem on porn websites is unknown. For instance, tag pages on XVideos and Xnxx list hundreds of the videos. Some videos include “fake” or “deepfake” in their titles and are tagged as being a deepfake. Many of the videos are hiding in plain sight – they’re uploaded to be watched, after all. ![]() “People will still be free to upload this type of material without any consequences to these websites that are viewed by hundreds of millions of people”. “Until there is a strong reason for them to try to take them down and to filter them, I strongly believe nothing is going to happen,” Patrini says. ![]()
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