Google has quietly banned deepfake projects on its Colaboratory (Colab) service, putting an end to the large-scale utilization of the platform's resources for this purpose.

Colab made it easier to create deepfakes, with forums to discuss and learn how to create images, but Google's restriction is expected to strongly impact the process.

Google wants to cut down on people “writing repetitive code, so you can focus on the more interesting parts of programming and data science.” Meanwhile, a “Colab AI” chatbot, accessible ...

In a recent policy change, Google has banned deepfake-generating AI projects from Colab, its platform for hosting and running arbitrary Python code.