Popular AI platform introduces rewards system to encourage deepfakes of real people

Civitai, an online marketplace for sharing AI models, just introduced a new feature called "bounties" to encourage its community to develop passable deepfakes of real people, as originally reported by 404 Media. Whoever concocts the best AI model gets a virtual currency called "Buzz" that users can buy with actual money. Many of the bounties posted to the site ask users to recreate the likeness of celebrities and social media influencers, most of them female. The reporting also calls out the lio...