definition and meaning
Face swap refers to AI-powered technology that maps one person's facial features onto another person's body in images or video. The underlying models analyze facial geometry, expressions, and lighting to produce increasingly seamless results. While face swap has legitimate entertainment and creative applications, its use in adult content raises serious legal and ethical concerns.
The technology overlaps heavily with deepfake capabilities, and in many jurisdictions the legal treatment is identical. Consensual face-swap (where all parties depicted have given explicit permission) exists as a niche creative tool. Non-consensual use, particularly placing someone's likeness into sexual content without their knowledge or agreement, is increasingly criminalized worldwide.
Non-consensual face swap in sexual content is illegal in most jurisdictions. The same laws that target deepfakes apply:
For details, see our guide on AI face swap technology and law.
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