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WIRED finds more than a dozen GitHub projects linked to deepfake porn

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A WIRED investigation has found more than a dozen GitHub projects linked to deepfake porn evading detection, extending access to code used for intimate image abuse.

GitHub ’s crackdown is incomplete, as the code, along with others taken down by the developer site, also persists in other repositories on the platform.

WIRED is not naming the projects or websites to avoid amplifying the abuse.

Torrents of the main repository banned by GitHub in August are also available in other corners of the web.

Other deepfake porn tools, such as the app DeepNude , have been similarly taken down before new versions popped up.

UK government announced criminalizing the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes, as well as the sharing of them, on January 7 .