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Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the Nonconsensual AI Porn Ecosystem

Citing pressure from payment processors and new legislation, a critical resource for producing nonconsensual content bans AI models depicting the likeness of real people.

However, by embedding in huge online spaces dedicated to creating and sharing nonconsensual content, I saw how easily people put these two types of models together. When Civitai first announced that it was being pressured by its payment processing service provider several users started an archiving project to save all the models on the site before they were removed. He also said the site uses a company called Clavata to flag well-known public figures, that people can "file a likeness claim" that will be reviewed and removed in 24 hours, and that it's piloting "an opt-in service with a third-party vendor so individuals can register a privacy-preserving face hash and have future uploads blocked at submission."

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