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The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK (www.wired.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Dragxito to c/technology

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[–] jagoan 150 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Streisand Effect will kick in soon. I don’t even know any deep fake porn sites.

[–] Mango 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

My first thought 😀

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I came here to post this. One should be careful because the action itself draws attention.

[–] Frozengyro 23 points 7 months ago

Can't just ignore it either. And it's a catch 22, if you don't talk about it people assume it isn't a problem. But if you do, it brings more shitty people to the sites and copycat sites. Also, unfortunately most female public figures have already been targeted by these sites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

One of the issues here is that there is likely considerable overlap between people who are competent enough to circumvent the block with a VPN or the like, and people who'd be seeking out AI deepfake porn, just because the latter likely appeals to socially outcast (and unfortunately therefore often more tech savvy) people.

I'm in the UK and glad this has been blocked but I also absolutely don't trust the weird internet puritanism of the UK government, for at least the time I've been following politics as a you g teenager, there have been many attempts to block various aspects of porn on the internet, normally from a point of protecting children but the whole thing has always reeked of the government testing public outcry on blocking parts of the internet to later re-attempt to censor on their interests.