Impressions says Trump will return to the app following the presidential election. “We did it because as the first deepfake application of our kind we believe that it’s our role to set the ethical standards.” “We had no contact with any government officials or pressure from outside parties to do so,” he said. “We’ve used all possible resources available to ensure that our application is used to push deepfakes as entertainment.”ĭeligoz stressed that Impressions had planned to remove Trump entireely well in advance and was not asked to do so by any outside group. “When we started building Impressions, we built it with a deepfake ethics first mentality,” Deligoz said. Speaking with the Daily Dot, Impressions CEO Murat Deligoz stated that the decision to temporarily remove Trump was made in light of the company’s views towards deepfake ethics. The Impressions app allows users to transform themselves into dozens of different celebrities including actors Mark Wahlberg and Brad Pitt as well as musicians Billie Eilish and Cardi B. The law makes exceptions for media featuring political figures that is either clearly satire or includes a notice stating that the content was artificially generated. Gavin Newson, AB 730 prohibits distributing “with actual malice” manipulated content designed to deceive voters within 60 days of an election. Signed into law last year by Democratic Gov. “While the law only requires us to remove Donald Trump for users from California, in order to stay true to our commitment to deepfake ethics, we have removed Donald Trump from the platform for all users.” “In accordance with California law regarding the coming presidential election, we have removed Donald Trump from our platform,” the company said. The company announced its decision in a statement this week and pointed to a California law intended to keep manipulated media from interfering in the political process. The use of AI in manipulating video, which is doubling every six months, has raised concerns for its potential abuse, particularly when privacy, sexual exploitation, copyright and artistic expression are involved.Impressions, the app that allows users to create deepfakes right from their iPhone, has removed the ability to mimic President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election. However, the lack of legislation spared Nakamoto from being charged with any offenses for violating the privacy of the actors in his manipulated videos. Lawyer Daisuke Sueyoshi told VICE World News that Nakamoto’s case was the first of its kind in which an AI user was caught. Nakamoto, who admitted to simulating pornographic videos for money, pleaded guilty to charges of copyright violation and displaying obscene images on his website. It was revealed that Nakamoto has so far made about 11 million yen (around $96,300) selling over 10,000 manipulated videos.
Getting caught: Nakamoto was arrested after police conducted a “cyber patrol” on him and he was caught selling 10 edited images at about 2,300 yen (around $20) each. Japanese adult videos often blur actors’ private parts as a local obscenity law forbids explicit depictions of genitalia. The same method that creates realistic face swaps allowed Nakamoto to reconstruct blurred porn clips by taking samples from a library of uncensored content he sourced online. Nakamoto took pixelated clips of adult video stars from porn videos and manipulated them with machine-learning software. A Japanese man was arrested on Monday after he effectively removed pixelated parts in censored domestically produced porn videos using artificial intelligence.Ībuse of tech power: Masayuki Nakamoto, a 43-year-old website owner from Hyogo prefecture, was apprehended for using deepfake technology in reversing pixelation in Japanese adult videos and then reselling the videos to willing buyers, reported VICE.