Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
February 18, 2026
•MIT_Tech_Review•Moderate impact
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•Civitai's marketplace enables the buying and selling of LoRA files, which can be used to generate deepfake content using AI models.
•Researchers found that the majority of deepfake requests on Civitai involve non-consensual, sexually explicit images of real people, often public figures.
•Civitai announced a ban on all deepfake content, but many requests and models predating this ban remain available on the site.
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