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The VOD was three hours old, but the clip was eternal.
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: He wired $60,000 to a law firm specifically to cover the legal fees for women seeking to have non-consensual deepfakes of themselves removed from the internet. bavfakes atrioc top
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- Nature of the site: Bavfakes was a paywalled website selling AI-generated deepfake porn videos. The “face” was swapped onto adult actors. Content was explicitly non-consensual and targeted dozens of female streamers (e.g., Pokimane, Maya, QT, Valkyrae, LilyPichu).
- Discovery: Atrioc’s bookmark made the site widely known. Previously, it operated in relative obscurity. Following exposure, the site was linked to a Russian-based hosting service and eventually shut down, though clones may exist.
- Impact: The public identification of the site caused a “Streisand effect” — more people searched for and downloaded the content out of curiosity, further victimizing the streamers.
- Donation: $60,000 split between CCRI and the Deepfake Crisis Network (founded by researcher Genevieve Oh).
- Content: On return, he streamed exclusively educational and anti-deepfake content for weeks, interviewing experts.
- Financial transparency: He pledged future ad revenue and donations to anti-NCII causes.
- Ongoing: His viewership dropped ~30–40% initially but has partially recovered. He remains a polarizing figure.
- AI ethics: The case demonstrated how low-barrier AI tools (e.g., deepfake generation) enable mass-scale abuse.
- Platform responsibility: Twitch had no clear rule against “off-platform” behavior like purchasing deepfake porn of other streamers until after this incident (policy updates came later).
- Victim support: Highlighted the lack of rapid takedown systems for deepfake NCII. Most DMCA notices fail because the victim’s face isn’t copyrightable.
- Legal gaps: No US federal law criminalizes creating or possessing deepfake NCII (only distribution in some states).