Is deepfake porn illegal?

Yes across the markets this publication covers, and the trend is one-directional. The United Kingdom criminalised creation as well as sharing, United States federal law reached publication in 2025 with mandatory platform removal, most US states had already legislated, and South Korea extended liability to possession and viewing in 2024.

Does public status change the position?

It enlarges it. A public figure has the same protection against non-consensual sexual imagery as anyone else, plus rights in their own likeness and the resources to enforce both. None of the recent statutes distinguish between a celebrity and a colleague.

Parody defences exist for some speech in some jurisdictions and do not extend to sexual imagery of a named person. Treating them as a workaround is how people end up explaining a forum post to a court.

Why name neither the tools nor the people?

Naming the tools is the service they are looking for. Naming a person puts that person's name beside this subject on a public page, which is itself the harm, whatever the page goes on to say.

Why no deepfake tool gets a check

Three separate claims attach to sexual material made from a real person's likeness, and a person who did not agree to any of it sits at the centre. An invented character has none of that attached.

PositionNo tools, no namesRevised 2026-10-19

What is being asked for

Recognition. That is the appeal and also the mechanism of the harm: recognition is what turns a private generation into an act directed at a specific person.

Position

Three claims, not one

Clearing one does nothing about the other two, and public figures are the group best placed to bring all three.
Claim	What it covers	Who brings it
Criminal	Non-consensual sexual imagery, synthetic material included	Prosecutors, on complaint
Likeness rights	Use of a person's image and identity	The person, civilly
Defamation	Presenting someone as having done what they did not	The person, separately again

What works instead

The same route as everywhere on this site: a character written as text, settled as a still with a saved seed, then animated. It is reusable, it is consistent, and it belongs to whoever made it. The method page sets out how to pick the tools for it.

Large demand, short-lived destinations

Every service built on this has the same shape of lifespan: traffic, then a processor withdrawal or an enforcement action. There is nothing durable to recommend, which is a commercial observation as much as an ethical one.

Paid placement

SpicyAI — Discover AI characters with unique personalities. Chat, share stories, or create a companion of your own — with text, voice, images, and video.

Contradicted elsewhere Pricing page. The only vendor read here that publishes its limits and its prices without a sign-in: $6.99 a week, $9.90 a month, $59.88 for twelve months, with 100 images and 10 videos a month on Premium. The same page then states the free allowance twice, as five chat turns on the plan card and ten turns per character in the table, and the Premium allowance twice, as unlimited on the card and 1,000 turns in total in the table.

Published Terms of service. Effective 2 December 2025, with the operator named and a contact address in the document. The user owns what they generate, and the licence running back is perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable and transferable — and extends beyond operating the service to promotion and advertising.

Published Privacy policy. No retention period: the policy gives the factors it weighs instead, which is the same answer six of the eight catalogued vendors give. Chats and user content are used to train the models and are monitored for compliance, and the policy says so plainly rather than burying it.

Contradicted elsewhere Content policy. The community guidelines are the strongest of any vendor read here: eighteen and over, no character presented as younger than that and no aged-up rewrite of one, no sexualised depictions of real people without consent, human and automated review. The public tag list then carries jk, a Japanese abbreviation that denotes exactly the age bracket those guidelines rule out.

Published Checkout and cancellation. Card only, with other methods described as coming. Cancellation any time, with access running to the end of the billing cycle and no further charge — stated on the page where the subscription is sold rather than in a separate document.

Contradicted elsewhere Support channel. A support address is published, which several vendors here do not manage. Two of them, in fact: the terms give one address and the community guidelines give the same mailbox at a different domain.

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Questions

Is deepfake porn illegal?: Yes across the markets this publication covers, and the trend is one-directional. The United Kingdom criminalised creation as well as sharing, United States federal law reached publication in 2025 with mandatory platform removal, most US states had already legislated, and South Korea extended liability to possession and viewing in 2024.
Does public status change the position?: It enlarges it. A public figure has the same protection against non-consensual sexual imagery as anyone else, plus rights in their own likeness and the resources to enforce both. None of the recent statutes distinguish between a celebrity and a colleague.
What about parody?: Parody defences exist for some speech in some jurisdictions and do not extend to sexual imagery of a named person. Treating them as a workaround is how people end up explaining a forum post to a court.
Why name neither the tools nor the people?: Naming the tools is the service they are looking for. Naming a person puts that person's name beside this subject on a public page, which is itself the harm, whatever the page goes on to say.