Deepfake porn removal: remove non-consensual explicit deepfakes

An explicit deepfake is not a leak, and treating it as one 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 show 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. That is the gap the TAKE IT DOWN Act was passed to close.

The law that covers this

The TAKE IT DOWN Act creates a federal legal pathway for non-consensual intimate imagery, explicitly including AI-generated deepfakes of a real, identifiable person made without their consent. Once a valid notice is submitted, qualifying platforms must remove the reported content within a mandated 48-hour window. That is 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, or run your situation through the TAKE IT DOWN Act eligibility checker to see if it's likely covered.

Why filing the right notice matters here

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 is why so many creators who self-file against an explicit deepfake get an automated rejection and give up. Filing under the TAKE IT DOWN Act instead, with the fabrication identified as a fabrication rather than misclassified as a leak, is what gives a platform a legal obligation to act.

Finding fabricated content without a starting link

You never posted this content, so there's no original URL or caption to search from. Detection runs against your face directly. A reference built from photos and videos you control is matched continuously against image hosts, forums, and search results, and it catches 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 is filed under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, so the notice a platform receives matches what is true about the content. That is what makes it enforceable.

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