{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-29T06:47:03.079Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"livestreaming","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2023-twitch-streamers-ai-sexual-deepfakes-on-paid-site-exposed-on-fellow-streamers-livestream","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'inadvertently showed his open browser tabs while doing a live stream in front of some of his 318,000 followers, revealing that he visited a website selling deepfakes—AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos—of fellow streamers.'; 'Screenshots then circulated the name of the website, the images, and the names of more than a dozen other female streamers whose likenesses appeared on the site, including QTCinderella.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The website page he was looking at contained fake nudes of popular streamers Maya Higa and Pokimane.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The controversy began in January 2023 when viewers noticed a website showing sexual images made using artificial intelligence (AI) on Atrioc’s stream.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"In January 2023 Atrioc inadvertently showed his open browser tabs during a livestream, revealing a website that sold deepfake sexual material of fellow female streamers; the page he had open showed fake nude images of Maya Higa and Pokimane, and screenshots spread the site's name, the images and the names of more than a dozen women whose likenesses were on it.","causal_attribution":"Outlets' accounts of a publicly broadcast stream and the screenshots."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'admitting that he’d followed a Pornhub advertisement for deepfake porn to a website where he bought access to those images'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'In an apology stream, Atrioc admitted to paying for access to the person’s deepfake library.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The available reporting establishes that he accessed the site, rather than that he created the images himself.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Atrioc apologised and said he had followed an advertisement for deepfake pornography to the site and paid for access; the reporting does not say he made the images.","causal_attribution":"Atrioc's own apology as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The creator of the deepfakes, responding to the apology and ensuing discourse, wiped their presence from the web and promised not to return.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The deepfake maker he paid wiped their NSFW content from their page on the host site Jan. 31, replacing it with a written apology.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The maker removed the content from the site on 31 January 2023 and posted a written apology in its place.","causal_attribution":"Outlets' reports of the maker's own action."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'inadvertently showed his open browser tabs while doing a live stream in front of some of his 318,000 followers, revealing that he visited a website selling deepfakes—AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos—of fellow streamers.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The controversy began in January 2023 when viewers noticed a website showing sexual images made using artificial intelligence (AI) on Atrioc’s stream.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Vice and the Times of India describe the material as AI-generated sexual images and videos made without consent.","causal_attribution":"Outlets' description of the site's deepfakes; no forensic analysis is reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'After Ewing’s slip on the livestream, people immediately started sending her non-consensual pornographic images of herself.'; 'Since seeing the AI-generated images, she’s dealt with body dysmorphia'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"QTCinderella told Vice that people began sending her the images right after the livestream and that since seeing the AI-generated images she has dealt with body dysmorphia and other effects on her health.","causal_attribution":"The depicted streamer's own account in an interview."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Many of the other women whose names and images were shared from the deepfake website Ewing visited, including Pokimane and Maya Higa, are also enduring a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention'; 'once the images and videos were online, people sharing and leaking them from their original source meant that they’ll likely be online forever.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Vice reported that other women whose names and images were shared from the site, including Pokimane and Maya Higa, were facing a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention, and that copies were likely to stay online.","causal_attribution":"Vice's reporting."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She explained that she did not speak much about it at the time because she felt deeply uncomfortable and publicly humiliated.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'the specific page it showed had photos of me, digitally altered to look extremely inappropriate.'; 'During a livestream on 25 October, Pokimane said seeing Atrioc's name or face continued to cause 'a lot of discomfort and anxiety'.'; 'However, she said she had personally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars — a figure she shared publicly that has not been independently verified in the cited reporting.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"In October 2026 Pokimane said the page shown on the stream had photos of her digitally altered to look extremely inappropriate, that she had felt publicly humiliated, that seeing Atrioc's name or face still causes discomfort and anxiety, and that she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on removal.","causal_attribution":"Pokimane's own statements; the spending figure is hers and unverified."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He announced that he would step back from a planned TwitchCon panel.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Atrioc responded by acknowledging her feelings and stepped back from a planned TwitchCon panel.","causal_attribution":"Reported response."}],"effects":[{"label":"streamer sent the images and describing body dysmorphia and other health effects","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"},{"label":"depicted streamers facing harassment and unwanted attention","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"},{"label":"streamer describing humiliation and continuing anxiety years later","claim_id":"c7","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.vice.com/en/article/deepfake-qtcinderella-atrioc","kind":"news_article","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read in full by the research agent (an AI); no translation.","independence_group":"vice"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/02/01/atrioc-deepfake-apology-offbrand/","kind":"news_article","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read in full by the research agent (an AI); no translation.","independence_group":"tubefilter"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us-streamers/pokimane-reveals-why-she-stayed-silent-after-atriocs-deepfake-controversy-in-2023/articleshow/135229054.cms","kind":"news_article","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read in full by the research agent (an AI); no translation.","independence_group":"pokimane-oct-2026-statements"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.techtimes.co.uk/pokimane-atrioc-deepfake-scandal-anxiety-1809484","kind":"news_article","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read in full by the research agent (an AI); no translation.","independence_group":"pokimane-oct-2026-statements"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","relationships","privacy"],"unknowns":["Who made the deepfakes and which tool was used.","How many people bought access to the site or saw the images.","Whether the other depicted streamers suffered further consequences.","How much of the material remains online."],"geography":{"basis":"The sources do not say where the site was run, where the livestream was made or where the depicted streamers live; Twitch is an online platform. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because outlets describe a paid site selling AI-made sexual deepfakes of named female streamers, its buyer and maker responded, and the depicted streamers describe harassment, humiliation and lasting distress. All harms are attributed to their own accounts.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The website sold deepfakes of the streamers, described by Vice as AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos and by the Times of India as sexual images made using AI; the buyer said he paid for access to deepfake content and the maker removed the content and apologised. These AI-made likenesses are what the streamers say exposed them to harassment and humiliation. No forensic analysis is reported and the tool is not identified.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Female Twitch streamers say AI-made sexual deepfakes of them on a paid site, exposed when a fellow streamer showed it on stream in 2023, humiliated them","summary":"In January 2023 the Twitch streamer Atrioc showed his open browser tabs during a livestream, revealing that he had visited a website selling deepfakes, which Vice describes as AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos, of fellow female streamers. Screenshots spread the site's name, the images and the names of more than a dozen women whose likenesses appeared on it. Atrioc apologised on stream on 30 January and said he had followed an advertisement to the site and paid for access. The maker removed the content on 31 January and posted an apology. QTCinderella told Vice she was sent the images and has dealt with body dysmorphia and other effects since seeing them, and Vice reported that Pokimane and Maya Higa were also facing a deluge of harassment. In statements on 25 and 26 October 2026 Pokimane said the page shown on the stream was of her, that she had felt publicly humiliated, that seeing his name or face still causes discomfort and anxiety, and that she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on removal (her figure, not verified). Atrioc acknowledged her feelings and stepped back from a TwitchCon panel. The tool used to make the images is not identified.","incidentDate":"2023-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2023-02-01","aiSystem":"Unidentified deepfake tool used by the operator of a paid website to make sexual images and videos of female streamers without consent","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Female streamers say AI-made sexual deepfakes of them sold on a paid site, exposed on a fellow streamer's livestream, brought harassment, humiliation and lasting distress, including body dysmorphia for one and continuing anxiety for another (their accounts, reported).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Three named streamers with a reported adverse consequence: QTCinderella (body dysmorphia and other effects she described to Vice, and being sent the images), Pokimane and Maya Higa (Vice: enduring a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention; Pokimane's own 2026 statements). Vice says many of the other women whose names and images were shared also faced harassment, without a number, so the count is partial. More than a dozen streamers were named on the site (Vice); those with no reported response are not counted. Viewers and followers are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.vice.com/en/article/deepfake-qtcinderella-atrioc","primarySourceLabel":"Vice, 13 February 2023: streamer QTCinderella speaks out against deepfake porn harassment","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T03:12:40.636552+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-29T03:12:40.636552+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexual-deepfake","non-consensual-imagery","livestreaming","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}