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Brandon “Atrioc” recently uploaded another update video about his ongoing mission to remove outright deepfakes from the internet. The process began in the wake of controversy surrounding the incident on stream earlier this year. Since then, he has created a fund of around $100,000 to help female Twitch streamers and other content creators remove their deepfakes from the internet through legal means.
In a previous video updated a couple of months ago, Atrioc announced that it had found an online service called Ceartes that apparently allows people to issue DMCA takedowns for a fraction of the cost. The team has been working closely with women who want their deepfakes and other non-consensual content taken from the internet, and the video serves as an update for the community.
YouTuber reveals Ceartes has removed over 200,000 cases of deepfakes from the internet with the help of the Atrioc Fund. That number is double what he promised in his initial apology:
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“We’ve hit a very big milestone. It’s 200,000 removals. That’s double the initial target.”
An AI tool used by Atrioc to help women remove their deepfakes may have saved nearly $8 million in legal fees
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For those who need a refresher, back in January of this year, Atrioc accidentally showed an in-stream website that was selling non-consensual p*nographic material like deepfakes to popular Twitch creators and YouTubers. The incident caused a lot of controversy, with Brandon profusely apologizing for his mistake on social media.
Moreover, he created a fund to help remove such despicable content, because issuing DMCA takedowns was not easy and required a lot of energy and resources. He himself tried to remove the content from the website he viewed, spending a lot of money in the process.
However, Atrico found a tool called Ceartas, which is AI-powered DMCA removal software that radically reduces the time and cost of removing deep fakes. Not only is it faster, but it also saves huge amounts of money. In fact, YouTuber showed stats claiming that Ceartas removed 200k listings with $100k. And that it would cost about eight million to do it the traditional way:
And if you look at that column, these are all the women who signed up with Ceartas, obviously the names are hidden. But that column is the estimated cost if they used traditional legal removal methods. That adds up to 8.66 million across all the people who signed up for an investment. Less than 100 thousand to remove a lot.
Obviously, if the numbers are right, the AI ​​has done a great job. However, even Atreuc advised caution when it came to believing the numbers,
“Again, that’s their number, take it with a pinch of salt, but it’s a ballpark based on what I’ve seen. We paid the law firm in February and March, pretty cool.”
Fan reactions
Fans have praised Atrioc for helping women in this way, considering it helped take down nearly 200,000 listings for such content:
Here’s a deep dive into the original controversy that shook the streaming community back in January with a more realistic definition of what is a deep fake.
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