A while back, Civit published an article "Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content" declaring that they were banning content generation of real life people and people utterly lost their shit.
They accused Civit of bowing to The Man[tm] because they issued this edict (note: totally separate from the more legit complaints about kowtowing to payment processors only to get dropped anyway). None of these complainers believed (or, in many cases, they didn't care) that failure to do so would get this site sued or prosecuted out of existence.
Hilariously, many even said they'd move to another generator site... which I said wasn't going to work, because this is a nationwide ban issued by Congress and signed into law by the White House. There is no escape from this law by any content gen site in the United States. People didn't believe that, either.
Welp, the major generator site I said was next was Tensor.art, and nobody believed that. And today Tensor.art has cracked down on AI art that creates real-world celebrities. Just as I said it would.
Then there's the people saying they will generate it on their own computers. Here's a word to the wise: payment providers refusing to allow payments for your favorite website is the least of your problems by a very long shot. If you produce deepfakes of real life people, especially celebrities, and you put them online, there is no escape for you if you live in the United States. The number of countries outside the USA where you can go to do this is shrinking, too. First thing: celebrities are well armed with cash and they have an alarmingly insatiable appetite for sucking up others' entire bank accounts when there's an actionable tort involved. Which means while you're in prison, or after you get out, you will get sued all the way down to your ancestors' cave paintings. But Suzie down the street will be sharpening her knives for your bank account if you (hypothetically) made a deepfake of her. Attorneys will be lining up to help such victims to that courtroom banquet.
But now onto the second thing: in America, most won't have to worry about the lawsuits: the Take It Down Act that caused this shitstorm imposes criminal penalties, including prison time - which most deepfakers won't survive in any meaningful way.
But trash talk all you want. People are going to fuck around and find out no matter what. As with everything you may or may not get caught. But in the words of Dirty Harry: "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you?"