Google has prohibited users from creating deepfakes on its machine-learning product Colab. The rule change happened between May 14 and May 24, according to archived page screenshots.

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.

Aimed at machine learning, education, and data analysis, Google Colab lets you write and execute Python in a browser.