Twitch has updated its policies to explicitly ban “intentionally promoting, creating, or sharing” deepfake Nsfw images.

“In January, a brief ‘deepfake porn’ incident was live streamed on Twitch,” the platform said in a blog post about the updates. “This moment caused immense distress to those whose images were used without their consent, and set off a wave of conversations about the dangers that AI-generated explicit imagery can pose.”

The “incident” they’re referring to is streamer Atrioc being caught with Nsfw deepfakes of fellow content creators. Atrioc showed his screen during a January 2023 broadcast and inadvertently revealed he had a tab open to a website that hosts deepfaked, nonconsensual Nsfw images and videos—including deepfakes of numerous female streamers.

Atrioc subsequently apologized, said he was taking a break from streaming, and stepped back from Offbrand, the creator event company he co-founded in September 2022 with Ludwig, Stanz, and Nick Allen.

In its policy update,...