Someone made a deepfake of you: report it and get it removed
An image faked with artificial intelligence is still a serious violation, even if "it isn’t really you". More and more laws, and every major platform, treat it as non-consensual intimate content.
What to do first
- Write down the links and the date. Don’t share the image, not even to warn people close to you: send the link instead.
- Report it on each platform as non-consensual intimate content or as an AI-manipulated image.
- Ask Google and Bing to remove the results: Google has a dedicated process for fake explicit images.
- If you’re an adult, StopNCII.org also works for faked images.
By platform
- Facebook Report a sexual deepfake or fake intimate image
- Instagram Report a sexual deepfake or fake intimate image
- TikTok Report a sexual deepfake
- X (Twitter) Report a deepfake or AI-generated intimate image
- YouTube Report a video that fakes your face or voice (AI)
- Snapchat Report a deepfake or fake nude
- Telegram Report a sexual deepfake or "undressing" bot
- Reddit Report a sexual deepfake or lookalike image
- Google (Recherche) Remove a deepfake or fake nude from Google
What to avoid
- Don’t pay or negotiate with the person spreading it.
- Don’t try to publicly "prove" it’s fake by reposting the image.
Your remedies by country
- TAKE IT DOWN Act: asking for an intimate image to be removed A US federal law requires online platforms to remove an intimate image posted without your consent, whether real or AI-generated, no later than 48 hours after a valid request. It protects anyone who can be recognised in the image.
- DSA: reporting illegal content to a platform (EU) In the European Union, any service that hosts content (social network, forum, sharing site…) must let you report illegal content online, examine your notice carefully and tell you its decision. It works for any content that breaks the law: intimate images, fake profiles, defamation, personal data…
- Intimate images shared without your consent in France In France, sharing an image or recording of a sexual nature without your consent is a criminal offence, even if you agreed to it being taken or took it yourself. You can ask the platform to remove it, file a police complaint and, if the site does not respond, complain to the CNIL (the French data protection authority).
- Sexual deepfakes: what you can do in France Since May 2024, sharing without your consent a sexual montage, or a sexual image, video or audio made by AI that reproduces your face or voice, has been a criminal offence in France. It does not matter that the content is fake: that is exactly what the law targets.
- Spain: the AEPD Priority Channel for intimate images In Spain, the data protection authority (AEPD) runs a Priority Channel to request the urgent removal of sexual or violent photos, videos or audio posted online without consent. It is separate from a complaint to the police or the prosecutor.
- Under 18 in Spain: if an intimate image of you is shared If you are under 18 and intimate or violent photos, videos or audio of you are posted without your permission, it is not your fault and help exists. In Spain, the data protection authority (AEPD) has a special form for minors to ask for them to be removed.
- When a domain registrar ignores your abuse report: ICANN A .com, .net, .org or other generic-extension site is registered through a “registrar” (a domain name registration company). Its contract with ICANN requires it to receive abuse reports, investigate them and respond appropriately. If it does not, you can complain to ICANN.
- StopNCII: help stop your intimate images being shared StopNCII.org is a free tool that creates a “digital fingerprint” of your intimate images on your phone or computer (a code calculated from the image that lets it be recognised without being seen), without uploading them. Partner platforms use this fingerprint to detect and remove those images.
- Intimate image taken before you were 18: Take It Down Take It Down is a free, anonymous service from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US child protection organisation. It helps remove or block, on participating platforms, nude, partially nude or sexual photos or videos of you taken before you were 18. It is never your fault.
- GDPR: asking for your personal data to be erased In the European Union you can ask a website, company or service to erase data about you (photo, name, address, post…) in the cases set out in the GDPR. It must reply within one month, and it is free.
- Right to be forgotten: asking Google or Bing to delist a link In the European Union you can ask a search engine to stop showing, when people search your name, a link to a page about you. This is called “delisting”: the page stays on the original site, but becomes much harder to find.
- DMCA: requesting removal of a photo or video you created The DMCA is a US copyright law. If a photo or video you created (for example a selfie) is posted without your permission on a service subject to US law, you can send a “DMCA notice” asking for it to be removed.
If it doesn’t work
An official form can go unanswered or be wrongly refused. That’s not the end: there are other doors, heavier but effective — the company hosting the site, the company managing its domain name, the laws of your country, the data protection authority. That’s exactly what we do for you, with your agreement.
- Reporting to the platform
- A written request to the site owner
- The domain name registrar
- The hosting company
- Search engines
- The authority or the courts
Common questions
Is it illegal if the image is fake?
In more and more places, yes. In the US, the TAKE IT DOWN Act covers AI-generated images. France punishes sharing a sexual deepfake of someone without consent since 2024. Check your country on our remedies page.
Do I have to prove it is fake?
Usually not: the procedures target sharing without consent. If you have the original (clothed) photo, keep it: it can help.
This information helps you use your rights. It doesn’t replace advice from a lawyer.