Prevent 18+ Videos Created with Deepfake from Twitch

Although Twitch, the most popular live broadcasting platform, imposes bans on broadcasters showing inappropriate content, this situation cannot be detected instantly. Even images shown for a few seconds can spread on social media and create a big agenda. your images created with deepfake fake images it escalates the debate.

We saw an example of this in the January 30 broadcast of Brandon ‘Atrioc’ Ewing. Publisher, Pokimane, QTCinderella and Maya Higa’s faces image placed on a naked body reflected in his publication. The images quickly spread on the Internet. Twitch rolled up its sleeves to prevent such a deepfake event from happening again.

Nudity images created with deepfake will result in a permanent ban:

Twitch, which wants to prevent images created and spread without the consent of the broadcasters, to protect publishers and the community announced that it will take new measures. Two updates to the company’s policies were shared as follows:

• Intentionally promoting, creating or sharing nudity fakes created with technologies such as deepfake with a direct permanent ban will result. Even if the incident is the publisher’s first violation, the situation will not change.
• Non-consensual synthetic images will also be added to the Adult Nudity policy. of these images even for a moment (even if the goal is to react to the image) will be penalized.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to prevent these images from being displayed in the first place:

Unfortunately, it is not possible to predict the images shown on Twich or any live broadcast platform or to analyze the images in split-seconds. Therefore, what platforms can do is limited to deterrent penalties in current technology.