2025-05-20
CivitAI in New Payment Provider Crisis, as Trump Signs Anti-Deepfake Act
President Trump has now signed the Take It Down Act, criminalizing sexual deepfakes at a federal level in the US. At the same time, the CivitAI community's bid to ‘clean up its act' regarding NSFW AI and celeb output has ultimately failed to appease payment processors, leading the site to seek alternatives or face shutdown. […]
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2025-04-24
CivitAI Tightens Deepfake Rules Under Pressure From Mastercard and Visa
CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW conten [...]
2025-04-28
UK regulator wants to ban apps that can make deepfake nude images of children
The UK's Children's Commissioner is calling for a ban on AI deepfake apps that create nude or sexual images of children, according to a new report. It states that such "nudification&quo [...]
2025-07-24
Itch.io is removing NSFW games to comply with payment processors' rules
Itch.io has deindexed and hidden all adult games from its browse and search pages to make sure it doesn't lose the ability to sell with the payment processors it uses. The gaming marketplace, whi [...]
2025-08-05
Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]
2025-02-14
Trump administration reportedly eyes renegotiating CHIPS Act awards
The recipients of the US government's CHIPS and Science Act awards may not get the amount that they were initially promised. According to Reuters, the Trump administration is looking to assess an [...]
2025-03-07
Trump's federal Bitcoin reserve order leaves the crypto market unenthused
With US stocks unstable, consumer confidence in the economy plunging and whispers of a potential recession growing less muted, the economy under President Donald Trump's second term has been abou [...]
2025-12-26
Apple will allow third-party app stores and payment processing in Brazil
Brazilian regulators have reached a settlement with Apple after a yearslong investigation into the company's App Store fee practices as well as its policies against third-party app stores. As fir [...]