The adult chatbot Secret Desires, run by Playhouse Media LLC, exposed around 2 million women's yearbook pictures tied to its AI porn operation. Real yearbook photos of real women, sitting in a database built for generating explicit deepfakes. Then the database leaked.

Your school photo is training data now

Yearbook photos are public by design. Nobody consented to them becoming feedstock for porn generators. But scrapers do not ask permission, and AI companion apps need faces. The pipeline is simple: harvest yearbook sites, feed the images into generation tools, sell the fantasy. The women in those photos find out only when something leaks or someone recognises them.

This is the industrial version of the school deepfake problem. Same violation, scaled up to millions. And the exposure cuts both ways: the women's photos are out there, and anyone can now generate new explicit content from them. The leak did not end the harm. It multiplied the raw material.

A deepfake detector helps on the victim side. Women who suspect their photos are being misused can check suspicious images through fake video detection online tools and get confirmation fast. Deepfake detection online means no cost barrier for someone already dealing with violation. Proof matters when you are asking platforms to take content down. Documented proof of manipulation is what turns a takedown request from a queue entry into action. Platforms move slowly, and reuploads appear faster than takedowns.

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Incident facts

  • Date: 2025-01-01
  • Company / actor: Playhouse Media LLC
  • Harm type: privacy breach
  • Severity: high
  • Source: AIAAIC Repository