Twitch addresses livestreaming of explicit deepfake content

Twitch has addressed the livestreaming of explicit deepfake content on its platform in a new safety blog post.

It follows an incident in January in which explicit fake content of female streamers was live streamed on Twitch.

“This moment caused immense distress to those whose images were used without their consent, and set off a wave of conversations about the dangers that AI-generated explicit imagery can pose,” reads the blog post from Twitch.

“The existence of this content, and its presence and distribution on various sites, is personally violating and beyond upsetting. Deepfake porn isn’t a problem on Twitch, but it’s a terrible issue that some streamers (almost exclusively women) may face on the internet at large. Though we have the most control over what happens on our own service, we want to help streamers protect themselves or respond quickly to this kind of situation anywhere it arises.”