Civitai Removes Real-Person Models and Images Due to New Regulations

Civitai is removing all models and images depicting real-world individuals from its platform, including PG and PG-13 content, to comply with new regulations like the US Take It Down Act and the EU AI Act. This decision, while frustrating for creators, is necessary to maintain access to payment partners and navigate the increasingly strict legal landscape surrounding AI-generated content and deepfakes. Civitai is working on consent-verification standards to potentially allow compliant likeness models in the future.