US EditionLeading Deepfake Porn Site Mr. Deepfakes Permanently Shuts Down
- Mr. Deepfakes, the internet's largest deepfake porn site, announced its permanent shutdown on its website due to loss of critical services and data.
- The site became a central hub for users creating and sharing nonconsensual deepfake videos after deepfake porn emerged around 2017 on Reddit.
- Mr. Deepfakes hosted over 55,000 videos and attracted more than 6 million monthly visits, while connecting users with creators selling custom deepfake pornography.
- UC Berkeley expert Hany Farid called the shutdown a significant step forward but cautioned that numerous similar sites remain active, emphasizing the need for continued efforts.
- Despite the closure, experts and reports suggest the deepfake community may migrate to other platforms, indicating the problem of synthetic nonconsensual intimate imagery will persist.
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On the outside, he lives a quiet life in the suburbs. But now we can reveal the identity of the man behind the world's largest deepfake porn site.
He is a 36-year-old pharmacist who apparently lives a quiet and respectable life in the suburbs. He has a well-paid job at a hospital, is a university graduate and drives a Tesla. But he has also lived another life as the chief architect behind the world's largest site for fake porn videos with famous women. This is shown by a major exposé that Politiken has carried out in collaboration with the foreign media Bellingcat and CBC as well as the Da…
He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian
A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-generated pornography: MrDeepFakes.com.
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