AI's making child porn? It really is 2018. The rise of "deepfakes", or fake pornographic videos that use machine learning AI to superimpose the face of a popular celebrity onto a porn performer to create the illusion of said celebrity having sex on video, has lead to a plethora of concerns - not least the privacy and moral dilemmas around what appears to be non-consensual pornography of celebrities existing on the internet. However, the latest of these concerns has arisen around the datasets, or facesets, or images that go into creating these deepfakes – and concerns that they may be leading into the accidental creation of nonconsensual child porn. To understand the concern, let's look at exactly how "deepfakes" work – The machine learning algorithms that go into creating these "deepfakes" will analyze a faceset of thousands of images and videos gathered into a single folder and read them frame-by-frame to get the exact image that is best matched and suited to the origi...
