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.

Google has recently enhanced its machine learning platform, Colab, by introducing AI-powered code assistance to all users, including those on free plans.

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

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 ...