The app ran hundreds of different ads on Meta, featuring sexualized deepfake videos of Watson and Scarlett Johansson with the Pornhub theme playing.
that the Apple app store had taken down the face-swapping app, and Meta stopped running ads for it, shortly after NBC’s original report. But the app remains on Google Play.
NBC’s report notes that “no sexual acts were shown in the videos” but “their suggestive nature” makes it clear that at least one purpose of the app is to “generate faked sexual content.” NBC also found that “some of the ads showed what looked like the beginning of pornographic videos with the well-known sound of the porn platform Pornhub’s intro track playing.”“Replace face with anyone,” the captions on some of the Meta ads say. “Enjoy yourself with AI swap face technology.
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