We are removing models and images depicting real-world individuals from the platform. These resources and images will be available to the uploader for a short period of time before being removed.
This change is a requirement to continue conversations with specialist payment partners and has to be completed this week to prepare for their service.
Which Resources Are Affected?
This applies to any depiction of a real person, regardless of context or rating - including PG and PG-13 content. Whether it’s a public figure, celebrity, influencer, or private individual, if a model or image is based on a real human being, it will be removed. This includes fan-art depictions of characters portrayed by a celebrity - e.g. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford).
Why Now?
We know this will be frustrating for many creators and users. We’ve spoken at length about the value of likeness content, and this decision wasn’t made lightly. But we’re now facing an increasingly strict regulatory landscape - one evolving rapidly across multiple countries.
The most recent example is the Take It Down Act, signed into law this week in the United States:
🔗 President Trump Signs Take It Down Act Into Law (whitehouse.gov)
The European Union’s AI Act - the first comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence - also includes provisions targeting synthetic media and deepfakes, particularly those involving real individuals:
🔗 EU AI Act – First Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (europarl.europa.eu)
Legislators around the world are responding aggressively to concerns about identity misuse, non-consensual imagery, and AI-generated impersonations.
The Bottom Line
If we want to stay accessible to the wider public - and continue offering creators monetization tools - we have to comply.
Real-person likeness content is no longer permitted on Civitai.
Our Terms of Service and Content Guidelines have been updated to reflect this change.
Thank you for your understanding - and this isn’t the end. We’re actively collaborating with industry partners to develop consent-verification standards, which could pave the way for bringing back compliant likeness models in the future.