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The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK

The world’s most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.

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I think AI image tools will probably keep improving faster than any rules trying to stop them. Blocking one site might help short-term, but people will just find new ways around it.

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