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Mr. Deepfakes, the Biggest Deepfake Porn Site on the Internet, Says It’s Shutting Down for Good
The biggest site for nonconsensual deepfake porn on the internet says it’s shutting down and not coming back.
“While this is an important victory for victims of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), it is far too little and far too long in the making,” Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on digitally manipulated images, told us in an email. “The technology, financial, and advertising services that continue to profit from and enable sites like mrdeepfakes have to take more responsibility for their part in the creation and distribution of NCII. Users on the site flocked to the forums to develop new techniques with each other, link to apps and tools that helped them create deepfakes, and shared datasets designed to recreate the likeness of specific real people.
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