Payment Processors Force AI Site Civitai to Remove Incest and Diapers

Payment Processors Force AI Site Civitai to Remove Incest and Diapers

Civitai, a hugely popular site for sharing AI models and a critical piece of infrastructure for AI-generated pornography across the internet, yesterday announced that it will now ban content depicting incest, self-harm, and fetishes featuring “bodily excretions” like urine, vomit, menstruation, and diapers, following pressure from payment processors. The site is also demonetizing content featuring the likeness of real people and making it harder…

CivitAI Tightens Deepfake Rules Under Pressure From Mastercard and Visa

CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW content – and particularly their TOS regarding celebrity LoRAs, one of the site's most popular user-submitted content streams, which enable people to use freely downloadable adjunct models such as LoRAs to create AI depictions (including video depictions)…