Reddit Bans Deepfakes Communities Amid Growing AI Porn Backlash
Reddit shuts down major deepfakes subreddits and updates its involuntary pornography policies to explicitly ban AI-generated fake porn. The crackdown aligns with similar recent actions taken by other major platforms like Twitter and Discord.
Reddit shuts down the popular r/deepfakes and r/deepfakeNSFW communities as part of a sweeping crackdown on AI-generated, face-swapped pornography. The social media platform updates its policies to explicitly prohibit the dissemination of faked intimate images or videos created without a person's permission. This action aligns with recent similar bans enacted by other major platforms, including Twitter, Discord, and Pornhub.
The banned subreddits boast a combined subscriber base of over 92,000 members before the takedown. Users frequently share manipulated videos depicting celebrities like Taylor Swift and Gal Gadot in explicit acts that never actually occurred, often utilizing an accessible software tool called FakeApp to create the misleading content.
Reddit's updated policy language broadly addresses non-consensual sexual content by outlawing faked explicit material, creepshots, and upskirt imagery. The platform currently faces questions regarding how it plans to actively enforce this new rule across the wider site, especially as the underlying AI technology becomes increasingly accessible to the general public.