The men believed what they saw online: a website filled with explicit AI-generated images of her face on someone else’s body, alongside her real home address. The site claimed her home was a brothel.

Sweet Anita, one of Twitch’s most recognizable streamers, understood the risks of being a woman online and took precautions. She hid her real name, set boundaries, and hired a team. None of that stopped someone from deepfaking her.

Nothing prepared her for what came next.

Sweet Anita’s story

An anonymous man commissioned AI-generated pornography of her, then built a fake website framing her as a sex worker — and listed her home address. The entire setup was designed to lure men to her home with the false expectation they could force her into sex. “After he did that, I started getting men coming to my house, especially when I would livestream and I was away from home,” she said. “I don’t feel safe in my own home.”

Strangers with duffel bags tried to break in. She was afraid to get mail from the postman. She had to stop answering her door and leaving the house unattended. She has moved before, but they kept finding her.

And the abuse wasn’t limited to her front step. Her late mother, proud of her daughter’s work, would check Anita’s social media and be forced to scroll past explicit, AI-generated images. Friends and coworkers saw them too. “I could delete everything off of YouTube, Twitch, all my socials — and there would still be loads of images of my face in videos that could be used as a reference,” she said.

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