Tell the Federal Trade Commission: Hold “Deepfake Academies” Accountable Under Take It Down Act

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Tell the Federal Trade Commission: Hold “Deepfake Academies” Accountable Under Take It Down Act

The petition to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson reads:

As a group of women, sexual assault survivors, and allies, we call on you to hold accountable, under the Take It Down Act, the insidious network of ‘deepfake academies’ instructing users (primarily men) online on how to scrape women’s images to create sexual deepfakes and sell the content. The websites, platforms, and tools we call on you to investigate include: TaviraLabsAI.com, Telegram, Instagram, Whop.com, CreatorCore, and Skool.com. Each of these platforms is responsible for fueling deepfake abuse at scale and warrants being investigated and held accountable as soon as the Take It Down Act goes into effect on May 19, 2026. Women and girls deserve to participate in online spaces without fear of their image being used to create fake, sexualized content.

One day, a young Arizona woman who we'll call MG was going about her normal life. The next, her world was shattered as she discovered AI-generated nude and scantily clad photos of her. These fake images weren’t just being circulated online--they were being used to advertise a platform teaching men how to create sexy “AI influencers.” Men she had never met were exploiting her image, violating her consent, and making money off her humiliation.

MG is one of three plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit in Arizona against at least 50 men for using their images without permission to create sexual content and sell tutorials. In these “courses,” men taught other men how to make their own AI influencers from photos of real women. These men weren’t just creating degrading content without consent—they were turning women’s identities and bodies into products for profit. It’s exploitative, predatory, and disgusting.

The horrible truth is this can happen to any of us, and NO ONE deserves it. That’s why we’re urgently calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to go after this network of “sexual deepfake academies" being run by many men and multiple websites and platforms. The federal anti-deepfake law called Take It Down Act--which will be enforced by FTC--officially goes into effect on May 19, 2026, and we believe that tackling this network should be the first order of business.