Reddit bans 'deepfakes' face-swap porn community

Social news site blocks subreddit where fake AI-created clips were first created, which had almost 100,000 users

Social news site Reddit has banned its nearly 100,000-strong "deepfakes" community, the original source of face-swapped celebrity pornography.

Reddit is where the deepfakes wave began, with one user manually creating the first AI-created video clips. When a second Redditor built a desktop app to do the same thing, the community began to grow rapidly, approaching 90,000 members at the time of its deactivation.