X-rated celebrity deepfakes are in heavy circulation online, as artificial intelligence and advanced technology blur the lines between real images and doctored content.
Despite Twitter’s policies against misleading media and non-consensual nudity, digitally altered imagery of popular TikTok creators and celebrities has cropped up on the platform, according to an NBC report.
Twitter searches for TikTok creators Addison Rae Easterling, Charli D’Amelio and Bella Poarch revealed sexually explicit deepfakes — manipulated videos or images where a person’s face is superimposed on someone else’s body.
According to NBC News, one snippet showed the face of Easterling, 22, on the body of another woman laying on a bed seductively.
As of Tuesday, it had been viewed more than 21 million times, and the thread featured further explicit content of the deepfake.
The anonymous user behind the account told the outlet that they later deleted the tweet after blowback.
The outlet claimed to have discovered at least nine accounts that circulate pornographic deepfakes, six of which were later suspended, and some featured explicit content using Poarch’s likeness.
Other imagery of the D’Amelio family reportedly remains on the platform.
On Twitter, the content appears to violate two of the company’s strict content policies.
The first, the synthetic and manipulated media policy, prohibits misleading or fabricated content that is promoted as factual.
The content could also violate Twitter’s non-consensual nudity policy, which states users can not share “intimate photos or videos of something that were produced or distributed without their consent.”
Twitter responded to The Post’s emailed request for comment with a poop emoji.
Representatives for D’Amelio could not be reached, and The Post contacted Poarch’s and Easterling’s reps for further comment.
But the TikTokers, who are the most-followed female creators on the app, are among the slew of women who have been targeted by pornographic deepfakes.
This year, actresses Emma Roberts and Scarlett Johansson were the stars of a sexually suggestive advert for deepfake software, which was later removed by Facebook. Meanwhile, a Texas teacher was the victim of digitally altered nude photos, and two Twitch streamers lamented the emerging trend.
“This is what it looks like to feel violated. This is what it feels like to be taken advantage of, this is what it looks like to see yourself naked against your will being spread all over the internet,” one of the streamers, 28-year-old Blaire, otherwise known as QTCinderella, previously said in part.
But community guidelines and the law are cracking down on digitally altered imagery.
In April, a Long Island man was sentenced to six months in prison for posting lewd deepfake images of underage women on porn sites.
Meanwhile, TikTok flat-out banned deepfakes that not only mislead audiences about major events but also feature the likenesses of private and young people.
But deepfakes aren’t just limited to raunchy content — faux images of Pope Francis donning Balenciaga fooled millions of viewers.
Then, in the corners of the internet, deepfakes of former president Donald Trump’s first arrest emerged in March, prompting swift action from Google to label the images as AI-generated.
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