Civitai, perhaps the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally admitted to pressure payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to fundamentally modify their NSFW content policies.
Click to play. Although Civit does not provide accurate numbers (and false labeling/errors are not uncommon and will likely distort the numbers), the number of celebrity AI models is clearly dominated by female subjects, primarily hundreds or even thousands. Source: Civitai.com
Alasdair Nicoll, the company’s community engagement manager, who has explicitly operates under pressure on Twitch Livestream on behalf of the company, Alasdair Nicoll, creator of Civit’s (SFW) model, acknowledged that the changes were forced on the site by concerns about the adult content of the payment processor and portrayal of real people. He also acknowledges the possibility that the main force behind these processors, Visa and MasterCard, is likely to demand even greater changes later.
“These are not changes we want to make. This is summarised into the new and impending law. There is the deepfake law, there is the AI porn law… the payment processor, and ultimately the Visa and Mastercard are shocked. They don’t want to be sued, and they are ultimately pushing for these changes.
“Some of the other options we were given were to remove jobs that were completely unsafe. We’ll remove X and Triple-X content from Civitai, remove it to an entirely new platform, and geoblock that platform. This is because more than half of the US states need some form of pornography geoblocking, and therefore many Asian and British countries (and) need it.
“The third option was to only make full encryption, crypto payments. So there was literally no good option for this.”
The Civic Domain has been declining regularly due to revisions over the past few days, and is clearly bringing about changes. The site already banned the use of NSFW themes in its portrayal of celebrities/models, but it’s no longer possible to view the Citizen’s Models section, line up famous LORA previews, and see a huge number of popular NSFW models designed to generate mature content.
The official announcement stated:
“It is flagged as a content tagged with a real name such as “Tom Cruise” (such as “Tom Cruise”) or a resource with a POI (Real-Person)
During the Twitch session, Nicoll revealed details of measures designed to protect famous people and real people. Civit has always allowed real people to request that they be removed from the citizens-hosted AI models that portray them, but now Nicoll is an institution where the system identifies “protected” people, even images that have never seen before, and that can prevent such images from being re-uploaded after the initial rejection.
To this end, the site is currently affiliated with the Clavata AI Moderation System, but it is not yet clear how much Clavata will power these new facilities.
Nicole said:
“Tom Hanks claims his portrait from us, for example. A pretty adult actress has it. A lot of A-list actors and actresses have it…
“I think the first thing we had was Barbara Eden, her property* – she was one of the first to claim her caricatures.
Is it protected by default?
Over the past few years, the AI VFX company’s metaphysics (full disclosure: I worked in metaphysics from early 2022 to late 2024) has sought to create a unique system that allows anyone to register their likeness, but it mainly targets Hollywood names who are concerned about supporting artistic figures with AI-based Hantavia. The company worked on Robert Zemeckis’ outings. here (2024)).
Logically, the usefulness of a system always depends on the final case law. Civit is currently based on measures that are mandatory for subscription-based services† What is proposed by metaphysics is redundant in the face of the rapid growth of deepfake methods and has the coverage of the possibility (free) of customary law. It is currently unknown whether it will be transferred to a double-negative VFX company that acquired metaphysical assets last year.
In any case, in contrast to this type of commercial solution, global law and general market pressures seem likely to provide protection and remedy.
Bring the frog to a boil
A 2023 report by 404 Media turned attention to the trends of Celeb and Porn AI models in Chivit, but the site’s founder Justin Maier downplayed the relationship between the similarity of celebrities offered by users and their use in the production of porn material.
Civit makes money by promoting onsite use of models offered by LORAS and other users, but Nicoll makes it clear that this is not a major concern for the motivation of Visas and Mastercard to provide changes to the site.
“Some people say the reason we’re in this mess is because we allow generation. That’s not in it. Hosting these models, hosting this content, is enough to bring Sauron’s eye out.
Community comment threads have been surprised in recent years that Civit is allowed to host celebrity portraits. Possibility, perhaps the inevitability of clampdown, many initiatives to maintain the Lora removed by citizens or their uploaders have been proposed or implemented involving r/civic craftsmen who have been (until now) rather ignored.
Many suggest that torrent-based initiatives are the natural solution, but it appears that well-formed domains have yet to emerge. In any case, this appears to drive activities that are prohibited in Shibit and elsewhere at the outermost margin of the internet. In a walled garden. And because most of the time, it seems like most frameworks that can handle banned portraits (such as Reddit and inconsistencies) will already ban such content or make sure it’s urgent.
At this time, Celebrity Loras is still seen in some civil restrictions, but most of the generated content is listed and excluded from casual findings. What one commenter appears to have proposed to Nicole in his Twitch session is that the crackdown will deepen (to the extent that it bans all the portraits of people in the uploaded model or portrayal).
Nicole replied:
“They won’t stop here, they’ll continue to demand more and more” – Absolutely! Yes, absolutely. It’s the world we live in. The only hope is that we can be big and powerful enough to say a little more about what is being dictated to us (…)
Nicole added the despair of the alternatives offered to the citizens:
‘(…)No one buys Bitcoin (using) the Civitai generator. So we tried to make this as delicious as possible, and this is what we ended up. So if this is something you can’t stand, my apology, but unfortunately that’s what it is. We did our best and pushed back as much as we could, but in the end we were told this was that.
‘(…) These financial institutions, they don’t understand what people are doing here. We tried to talk to them, we tried to talk to them, but we are actually the last fortress of (NSFW) content.
Nicole said Civit “reached out to every payment processor I could imagine.”
‘Even the high-risk payment processors used by porn sites, they are all very wary of AI content. That’s the problem – it’s AI content. If we were a traditional porn site, we would be fine, but AI content is scary. ”
Where is the next?
Prior to this announcement, it was observed that Civit had removed uploads covered in some of the currently prohibited content categories and types. At the time of writing, the WAN 2.1 LORAS “emergency repository” has been established on the Hugging Face website. Some of the archived LORAs are designed to promote general sexual activity that is either trained or not present in newer video models, such as WAN 2.1, but some of them fall under the currently strictly prohibited “undressing” category (i.e. “fine tuning”), including some models that can be argued to be “extreme” or potentially potentially offensive.
Subreddit R/Datahoarders, at the forefront of preserving US government online literature under Donald Trump’s mass removal campaign, has so far shown a light emptying against the idea of saving lost Civitai content.
The literature does not notice a simple promotion of Civitai’s NSFW AI generation. However, one of the most cited studies is the 2024 paper. Investigating the use of abusive generation AI models in Civitaihams by the fact that Civit does not allow previous celebrities or illegal AI generations, and the researchers’ determination to find their evidence in Civit itself.
However, obviously, what is related to payment processors is not produced by Civit itself in Loras, and not published there, and what is being done with these models is other A community that is closed or generally unregulated.
From the advent of stable diffusion and diffusion-based models in 2022, the Deepfakes website, a synonymous with the method of general automatic encoder-based NSFW deepfake, has begun posting examples of celebrities-based porn videos using both images containing both images containing both videos-to-video patients. However, it appears that as each community develops later this year, it is set to earn its own inflammatory headlines.
Required Metadata
According to Nicoll, one interesting change that appears to be requested by the payment processor is that every image on the site must contain metadata. When an image or video is generated by a typical workflow generation model on a platform such as Comfyui, the output usually contains metadata that lists the model used (as with its name, if the model is changed by the user, its source remains clear) and several other settings.
Because of these hidden data points regarding how images are created, users can drag a video or image that someone else has created into their own Comfyui workflow, recreating the entire flow and dealing with missing dependencies (such as models or components that the original author had, that they need to place and download).
Civit has announced that any generation of images and videos missing from this data will be deleted within 30 days. Users can manually add such data by entering it into the Civit website itself.
This provision seems rather pointless, as the value of the metadata is (probably) evidence. Copying and pasting metadata from one file to another is trivial. To this With the invention of metadata via web format, this new rule becomes a bit inexplicable.
Nonetheless, several users (including one comment in a Twitch session) have uploaded thousands of images on Civit. The only request I’m currently asking is to manually annotate each of them or delete and re-upload the image version using the added metadata. This will erase the likes or buzzes or conversations that the original image produced.
New rules
Here are the summary changes that apply to Civit starting today.
- Content tagged with the name of a real person or identified as an actual resource will no longer be visible in the public feed.
- Content that contains children/minor themes will be filtered from the feed.
- X and XXX rated content that lacks Generation metadata is hidden from public views, flagged with warnings, allowing the uploader to add missing details. This kind of content will not be deleted, but will only be visible to the creator until it is updated.
- Images created using Bring’s proprietary Images (BYOI) feature must apply at least 50% noise changes during generation. This means that AI needs to significantly modify uploaded images, reducing the chances of generating replicas near standard. However, images that are fully created with Civitai or remixed from other Civitai content are not subject to this rule and can use an unofficial level from unchanged (0.0) to full conversion (1.0). This change is intended to reduce abuse of BYOI tools. This can be used to generate subtle or undetectable deepfakes by barely modifying the actual image. By forcing a minimum of 50% change, AI doesn’t just lightly edit existing photos of real people.
- When browsing with X or XXX content enabled, searching for celebrity names does not return results. Combining celebrity names with mature content is still prohibited.
- Ads do not appear in images or resources designed to replicate the actual individual’s appearance.
- A chip (buzz) is invalid for images and resources depicting actual individuals.
- Models designed to replicate real people are not eligible for early access, a Civitai feature that allows creators to release content to supporters first. This limits the monetization of celebrities or substantial portraits.
- A 2257 compliance statement has been added to make it clear that the platform does not allow content that is not generated by AAI. This helps ensure legal protection by ensuring that all explicit material is composite and not based on actual photos or videos.
- The new content removal request page allows anyone to report abusive or illegal material without having to log in. Registered users should continue to use the built-in reporting tool for each post. This is separate from existing forms for requesting that likeness be removed from the platform.
- Civitai has introduced a new moderation system through its partnership with Clavata. Clavata’s image analysis tools were better than previous solutions such as Amazon Rekognition and Hive.
* Despite mentions of Barbara Eden’s “real estate,” I dream of a genie The actress is still alive and is currently 93 years old.
† Archive: https://archive.ph/tsmb0
It was first released on Thursday, April 24th, 202. Thursday, April 24th, 2025 14:32:28: Edited date.
