You probably heard about both DeepFakes and AI porn already. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.

Is there a real difference or are they basically the same?

Well, I could start of with saying how complicated this is. But it isn’t.

AI is the very broad term for everything related to Artificial Intelligence. AI Porn is just a sub-set of that term and encompasses everything related to AI and pronography. Deepfakes are a bit different. They indeed are build using AI however they don’t need to be sexual in nature. There are a lot of deepfakes that are unrelated to sexual desires.

Let’s do some groundwork; definitions

Aspect	Deepfakes	AI Porn
Definition	Synthetic media where faces and/or voices are swapped using AI.	Sexually explicit content generated using AI
Media type(s)	Video, images and audio	Video, images, interactive chat, audio
Input	Existing footage of a real person	Prompts (your imagination)

Deepfakes tools

In the Apple and Android stores you can find numerous apps that can help swap some faces. For more elaborate tools you can check out the following GitHub page: Deepfakes. Deep Live Cam is very nice project.

You need to be a bit more technical and some background in Python might be helpful.

Counter Deepfakes

Since, the world is fake enough, and it is getting harder to see whether something is real or not, there are also tools that can detect fake content.

For example, Sensity and Deepware Scanner. (I haven’t tried them out, so I can’t say how good they work).