MrDeepfakes.com had become possibly the most notorious site online, seemingly impervious to the growing hysteria over non-consensual deepfake porn, as well as even the increasing worldwide legislation against such material. Now however, thanks possibly to Trump’s ‘Take It Down Act’, the site has suddenly gone offline, with only a webpage message holder left that states they will never be coming back. It also claims that a service provider had pulled the plug on them.
“Mr. Deepfakes” drew a swarm of toxic users who, researchers noted, were willing to pay as much as $1,500 for creators to use advanced face-swapping techniques to make celebrities or other targets appear in non-consensual pornographic videos. At its peak, researchers found that 43,000 videos were viewed more than 1.5 billion times on the platform. The videos were generated by nearly 4,000 creators, who profited from the unethical—and now illegal—sales.
“Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation,” Mr. Deepfakes confirmed, while warning not to trust any impostor platforms that pop up in its absence. “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.”
It remains unclear exactly which service cut off Mr. Deepfakes, but researchers noted that among the “most crucial components” that deepfake creators needed to keep generating the content was “free-tier cloud GPU access” provided through Google Colab notebooks.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/largest-deepfake-porn-site-shuts-down-forever/
The recently passed ‘Take It Down Act’ requires service providers to take down any non-consensual porn – whether real or AI – within 48 hours of a request, otherwise face enormous fines. The bill has attracted some controversy, in particular regarding it allowing no exemption on images posted through encrypted messages, which may arguably lead to big tech companies changing their privacy polices with regards to encryption.
Closer to home, the Take It Down Act and the further negative perception of ‘deepfake porn’ has led to Steve Lightspeed abandoning his original AI porn generating site ‘DeepFake.com’ and telling affiliates to switch permanently to his newer mirror site ‘Porn.ai’.
