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r/facesets

Banned · February 2018

Reason

Facilitating non-consensual deepfake creation (face-image datasets)

Context

Hosted face-image sets used to train deepfakes; removed in the Feb 2018 wave.

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Inverse — Reddit Just Banned r/Deepfakes, Finally
News2018