Streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing has spent 11 years building his career on Twitch and YouTube as a gaming streamer. But a fatal click on an erotic site cost him his career in January 2023. Now he’s doing everything he can to clear his reputation. And he’s succeeding: almost single-handedly, he’s taking a beating against “deepfake porn,” one of the biggest problems women face on Twitch.
Which click ruined his career?
This is what the streamer said about it: In a video a month and a half ago, with his girlfriend by his side, Atrioc said:
After the scandal, Atrioc went into hiding for a few weeks. The deepfake site was shut down – QTCinderella took legal action against the site.
Atrioc is making serious efforts to solve the Deepfake problem – spends a lot of money
This is what he says now: A month and a half after the scandal, Atrioc came back to Twitch on March 14th. He’s clearly determined to undo the damage he’s done and his reputation. He says he worked with reporters, researchers and affected women for a month and a half.
He paid a law firm $60,000 (€56,000) to cover the costs of every woman on Twitch to protect their rights and take action against such deepfakes.
In addition, Atrioc wants to get to the root of the problem and has found allies on Onlyfans: Because the creators who post erotic photos of themselves there are very interested in preventing “deepfakes” of themselves on the Internet, because that limits their income opportunities a.
Therefore, the creators on Onlyfans are leaders in having content about themselves taken off the web. This is how he came up with the solution option “AI”. Because Onlyfans works with an AI company.
Atrioc says he has since been in contact with Irish AI company Ceartas, which offers content creators a service to have such images removed from them. The streamer’s first attempts to work with the AI company had shown that Ceartas was much better able to find such deepfakes and remove them from the network than other methods.
Atrioc says just starting the test with “Pokimane” resulted in 2,000 takedowns.
The stream had some technical issues, but the voice can be heard well:
Irish AI firm succeeds in cracking down on deepfake porn – Atrioc is paying for it
This is the result now: Atrioc says
Ewing is apparently determined to use the AI program to tackle the problem of deepfakes on the web and has secured collaborations with streamers like Maya Higa, QTCinderella, Amouranth and Pokimane.
As Atrioc tells the US site Kotaku, he is offering every Twitch streamer to pay for the AI company’s services. He has enough money to keep the offer up for 30 to 60 days.
Streamer says: Words don’t count, only actions
Again he says: He screwed it up. He’s really sorry. But words didn’t count, he was focused on making sure his actions really matter.
More about the incident:
Twitch: Streamer ruins 11 years of career and his good reputation with a mistake – “It was 2 a.m.”