Mr. Deepfakes，一个充斥未经同意的换脸色情内容的网站，已宣布关闭。该网站通过机器学习技术制作高度逼真的换脸视频，曾因将名人面孔替换到色情视频中而臭名昭著。在Reddit等平台禁止此类内容后，Mr. Deepfakes应运而生，为相关用户提供了分享和消费此类内容的场所。然而，该网站的关闭并非自愿，而是由于“关键服务提供商永久终止服务”导致数据丢失，无法继续运营。值得注意的是，该网站关闭的时机正值美国国会通过《Take It Down法案》，该法案将未经同意的私密图像（如换脸色情）定为犯罪。

🛑 Mr. Deepfakes是一个提供非自愿换脸色情内容的网站，利用机器学习技术制作高度逼真的换脸视频，允许用户将名人面孔替换到色情视频中。

🚫 该网站的关闭并非自愿，而是由于“关键服务提供商永久终止服务”导致数据丢失，无法继续运营。网站声明不会重新启动，并警告用户警惕假冒网站。

⚖️ Mr. Deepfakes的关闭与美国国会通过的《Take It Down法案》有关，该法案将未经同意的私密图像（包括换脸色情）定为犯罪，并要求在线平台删除此类内容。

Mr. Deepfakes is no more.

One of the internet's biggest destinations for nonconsensual deepfake porn has announced that it is shutting down. The website, Mr. Deepfakes, has already gone offline, as first noticed by 404 Media. Mr. Deepfakes's URL now redirects to a "shutdown notice" message announcing the end of the site.

Deepfakes are essentially hyperrealistic face-swapping videos that are created with machine-learning technology. Deepfakes became very popular on social media platforms like Reddit in 2017, with users superimposing celebrities' likeness into various movie and TV show clips. For example, one popular deepfake at the time superimposed Arnold Schwarzenegger's face over Bill Hader while the latter impersonated Schwarzenegger in an late night TV interview with Conan O'Brien. However, users also began to use deepfakes to make nonconsensual porn, which digitally inserted celebrities into pornographic videos.

In 2018, Reddit officially banned deepfake porn. Mr. Deepfakes was created in response to the ban, giving those deepfake-creating users somewhere to go to share and consume this nonconsensual content. Little is known about the creator or creators of Mr. Deepfakes. Earlier this year, an investigation by German outlet Der Spiegel claimed to have identified the individual behind the site as a 36-year-old from Toronto.

According to the shutdown message on Mr. Deepfakes, however, the website's end was not by choice. It appears Mr. Deepfakes was forced to pull the plug.

“A critical service provider has terminated service permanently," Mr. Deepfakes' website says in its shutdown notice. "Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation. We will not be relaunching. Any website claiming this is fake. This domain will eventually expire and we are not responsible for future use. This message will be removed around one week."

Mr. Deepfakes did not share what service provider they were using or why the provider cut the website from its service. 

The timing of the Mr. Deepfakes shutdown is interesting. Just last week, Congress passed the Take It Down act, which criminalized nonconsensual intimate imagery, such as deepfake porn. The Take It Down act also requires that online platforms take action to remove such content as well.