A
screenshot of a channel on the deepfakes Discord server where
users shared explicit videos that had been doctored to include
images of female celebrities. The women's names have been
redacted.
Discord
Discord has shut down a chat group on its service that
was being used to share pornographic videos that had been
edited using an artificial intelligence technology to include
the images of female celebrities without their
consent.
Dozens of people were active on the channel, which
Discord said violated its rules on revenge porn.
People who have doctored videos using the AI technology
are also sharing them on Reddit.
Online chat service Discord has shut down a user-created chat
group that was being used to share pornographic videos that had
been doctored using artificial intelligence technology to include
the images of female celebrities without their consent.
The company closed down the group shortly after Business Insider
reached out to Discord about it. Discord took it offline because
the chat group violated its rules against non-consensual
pornography — otherwise known as revenge porn, a company
representative said in a statement.
"Non-consensual pornography warrants an instant shut down on the
servers whenever we identify it, as well as permanent ban on the
users," the representative said. "We have investigated these
servers and shut them down immediately."
Discord lets users create their own communities or "servers"
around certain subjects. Originally intended as a tool for gamers
to communicate, it is now used more broadly, with more than 14
million daily users it
says, who send more than 300 million daily messages.
The chat group was called "deepfakes", and it included several
channels in which users could communicate. One was reserved for
general discussions, another for sharing pictures that could be
used to train the AI technology, and yet another for sharing the
doctored videos. About 150 Discord users were logged into the
deepfakes server earlier on Friday.
Users
on the deepfakes server discussing some of the technical aspect
of creating the videos.
Discord
The users who created the chat group did attempt to set some
ground rules for it. The rules stated that the videos couldn't be
doctored to include images of "amateurs;" instead, only images of
celebrities and public figures were allowed. And the rules barred
images or videos of children.
"It goes without saying that you should respect each other," the
rules added. "Be polite, avoid excessive swearing, and speak
English at all times."
Over the last few months, growing numbers of people have been
using an AI technology called FakeApp to virtually insert images
of celebrities and other people into videos in which they didn't
originally appear, as
first reported by Motherboard in December 2017. People who
are interested in the technology or who have already edited
videos using it have been congregating on Discord and Reddit to
exchange notes on how to use FakeApp and share their efforts. (A
Reddit spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.)
Although the technology can be used for a variety of purposes, to
date it's largely been used to place the images of famous women
into adult videos without their consent.
As of publication, a Reddit community dedicated to sharing the
clips remained online, and users were discussing the closure of
the Discord channel. Some had been banned from all servers across
the service, they said.
"The celeb faceswap gifs and videos seem to be slowly
disappearing from this [subreddit], and now the discord is
gone... I’m worried that the best fap fuel may be about to be
buried," one user wrote.
"Of course this has more potential than that, but come on.
The porn is clearly the best part."
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