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In June 2019, the United States House of Representatives had a session on deepfakes. Members of the United States House of Representatives. Members of the United States House of Representatives. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters At a House Intelligence Committee session in June 2019, lawmakers finally heard official testimony about deepfakes and pledged to examine "the threats to national security posed by fake content facilitated by Artificial Intelligence, which what can be done to detect and combat it and the role that the public sector, the private sector and society as a whole should play to counter a potentially bleak, post-truth future. At the hearing, Adam Schiff of the Democratic Party urged technology companies to " put policies in place to protect users from misinformation " before the 2020 election.
An app you've never heard of had more downloads in September than Facebook, YouTube or Instagram The results of trials to prevent deepfakes have been mixed. Jennifer Lawrence Truth Syrup/YouTube; ScreenSlam/YouTube The platforms SW Business Directory that have had to deal with deepfakes along with the Pentagon have been working on technology to detect and remove deepfakes, but the results have been mixed. In June 2018, a Vice investigation found that deepfakes were still hosted on Gfycat despite its detection technology .
Gfycat reportedly removed deepfakes that were flagged by Vice but remained active after they were re-uploaded in an experiment by journalist Samantha Cole. Pornhub has also suffered when it comes to removing these videos. At the time of writing, the first result of a simple Google search for "deepfakes on pornhub" points to a playlist of 23 deepfake-style pornographic videos hosted on Pornhub showing the superimposed faces of Nicki Minaj, Scarlett Johansson and Ann Coulter in explicit videos. Pornhub immediately responded to a request for comment regarding these videos. Read more: This is the real look of 40 celebrities without makeup Technologies that have been developed specifically to detect deepfakes are misleading, according to experts.