YouTube Shuts Down More Than 100 Explicit Deepfake Channels

produced with the help of artificial intelligence Increase in the number of deepfake videos stands out. While it has become very easy to produce or edit images, especially thanks to new productive tools, social media channels continue to work on deepfake. Finally Googleclosed down more than 100 channels that shared sexually explicit deepfake content on YouTube.

worldwide 2.5 billion people used by YouTube, has already surpassed the limits of being just a video sharing platform. Such channels are not supported on YouTube, which is among the most preferred tools even as a search engine today, but some people somehow manage to upload these videos.

Channel owners turned out to be school bullies and child molesters

It turned out that most of the videos on the closed channels were created by bullies at schools. Spain And in the USA In these channels, high school students made inappropriate deepfake videos of female students in their classes and shared them on the internet. It was stated that people who were victims of these bullying faced social humiliation, shame and panic attacks.

One of the channels showed children naked and naked. pornographic images It turned out that the creator and sharer belonged to a convicted child psychiatrist. This psychiatrist was punished for using artificial intelligence to create nude photos of his then-underage high school student girlfriend.

On the other hand, Google’s problem with deepfake is only this Not restricted to YouTube channels. Tools that use deepfakes and create obscene content can also be found in the search engine and Android store. It is currently unknown what path Google will follow.