Remove non-consensual explicit deepfakes

Explicit deepfakes are a distinct category from a leak, and treating them as the same thing is the most common reason a self-filed removal request goes nowhere. A leak is your genuine content, copied and reposted; an explicit deepfake was fabricated to depict you in something that never happened, using an AI model trained on your public photos. Copyright law doesn't apply to a fabrication, because nothing was copied from you — which is exactly the gap the TAKE IT DOWN Act was passed to close.

The law that actually covers this

The TAKE IT DOWN Act creates a federal legal pathway for non-consensual intimate imagery, explicitly including AI-generated deepfakes depicting a real, identifiable person without their consent. It requires qualifying platforms to remove reported content within a mandated 48-hour window once a valid notice is submitted — a statutory deadline, not a courtesy timeline that depends on how responsive a given host happens to be. Read the full breakdown of what qualifies and how the process works.

Why filing the right notice matters here specifically

A platform that receives a DMCA notice against fabricated content has a straightforward, correct basis to reject it: nothing was copied, so there's no copyright claim. That single technicality is why so many creators who try to self-file against an explicit deepfake get an automated rejection and give up. Filing under the TAKE IT DOWN Act instead — with the fabrication correctly identified as fabrication rather than misclassified as a leak — is what gives a platform an actual legal obligation to act.

Finding fabricated content without a starting link

Because this content was never posted by you, there's no original URL or caption to search from. Detection instead runs against your face directly: a reference built from photos and videos you control gets matched continuously against image hosts, forums, and search results, catching fabricated content the same way it catches a genuine leak — the difference is only in which notice gets filed once a match is confirmed.

Every match gets classified before anything is filed

Not every AI-flagged match is a fabrication, and not every visually-similar match is even you. Each candidate is reviewed and classified — genuine content gets a DMCA notice, and a confirmed fabrication gets filed under the TAKE IT DOWN Act — so the notice a platform receives matches what's actually true about the content, which is what makes it enforceable.

For AI-generated content built with a specific class of "undress" tool, see our nudify app removal page. For fabricated video specifically, see face-swap video removal.