Twitch streamer Maya Higa has supplied her opinion on the present deepfake controversy surrounding one different streamer, Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing.
On January 30, 2023, Atrioc went reside on Twitch to concern an apology after it obtained right here to mild he watched categorical deepfake motion pictures of various well-liked streamers. Atrioc was joined by his partner, Arianna, inside the tearful apology video.
Atrioc accidentally confirmed viewers his net browser all through a Twitch live-stream. One of these tabs allegedly confirmed an web web site that choices NSFW deepfakes of well-liked female streamers. Maya Higa was one among many Twitch streamers who has had a deepfake created of them, allegedly created by a client known as Bavfakes.
Maya Higa producers deepfake controversy ‘disgusting’
After Atrioc’s apology video went reside, Maya Higa penned her private assertion on the deepfake controversy.
She posted on Twitter: “I have created zero sexual content in my three years on Twitch. Despite this, my face was stolen so men could make me into a sexual object to use for themselves. If anyone doesn’t think it’s a big deal that MY NAME is in headlines where thousands of people are commenting on the sexualization of MY BODY against MY WILL, you are the problem.”
She added that the present events had made her “feel disgusting, vulnerable, nauseous, and violated.”
Maya Higa attracts comparisons with experience in 2018
To emphasize the seriousness of constructing categorical deepfakes of individuals with out their consent, Maya Higa drew on a earlier experience.
“In 2018, I was inebriated at a party and I was used for a man’s sexual gratification without my consent,” Higa writes. “Today, I have been used by hundreds of men for sexual gratification without my consent.”
Read her full put up underneath:
— Maya (@mayahiga) February 1, 2023
There has been an attempt to crack down on categorical deepfakes by means of the last few years. In 2019, the state of Virginia banned deepfake pornography. In September 2022, the UK authorities launched plans to make the sharing of pornographic deepfakes with out consent a prison offense, Sky research. Individuals who share or create categorical deepfakes made to look like an individual with out their consent might probably be jailed.
Streamers unite over message to ‘stop sexualizing people without consent’
Fellow Twitch streamers Pokimane, QTCinderella and Sweet Anita have echoed Maya Higa’s sentiment of their very personal statements. All 4 streamers have mirrored on the dearth of consent and exploitation they’ve been subjected to by the creation of these deepfakes.
QTCinderella wrote: “Being seen ‘naked’ against your will should NOT BE A PART OF THIS JOB.”
“I literally choose to pass up millions by not going into sex work and some random Cheeto-encrusted porn addict solicits my body without my consent instead,” Sweet Anita tweeted. “Don’t know whether to cry, break stuff or laugh at this point.”
Pokimane gave the simple statement: “Stop sexualizing people without their consent.”
stop sexualizing people with out their consent.
that’s it, that’s the tweet.
— pokimane (@pokimanelol) January 31, 2023
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If you’ve obtained been affected by this story, you might contact the RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, National Sexual Hotline. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week on 1 (800) 656-4673. You can also contact the Department of Defense Safe Helpline for Sexual Assault on 1 (877) 955-5247.
