Image removal guide
How to respond to an AI image or deepfake using your likeness
AI or manipulated images can involve privacy, harassment, impersonation, platform policy, or specialist legal issues. Reclaim helps you keep the review evidence organised.
General guidance, not legal advice.
Reclaim provides product guidance and request templates for your review. Urgent, complex, or high-risk situations may need specialist support or qualified legal advice.
What this applies to
- A public image appears manipulated, synthetic, or falsely presented as you.
- A platform has synthetic media, harassment, or privacy reporting routes.
- You need a clear record before making a report.
Evidence to collect
- The URL, screenshot, account name, and publication context.
- Notes explaining why you believe the image uses your likeness.
- Any captions, claims, tags, or messages connected to the image.
- Dates, reposts, and platform responses if available.
Which request may help
An AI or manipulated likeness report, privacy request, harassment report, or urgent intimate-image route may help depending on the content.
Where to send it
- The platform's synthetic media, harassment, or privacy report route.
- The website owner or host if no platform report exists.
- Specialist support routes if the content is intimate, threatening, or exploitative.
What to do if ignored
- Document the lack of response and submit a clearer follow-up.
- Escalate through trust and safety channels if available.
- Consider de-indexing requests after reviewing the source page status.
When to escalate
- The image is intimate, sexualised, threatening, defamatory, or used for blackmail.
- The image is spreading quickly or being used to target you.
- The situation involves a child or immediate safety risk.
FAQ
Common questions
Can Reclaim detect every AI image?
No. Reclaim checks possible public matches and helps you organise evidence.
Is an AI image always a copyright issue?
Not always. Privacy, likeness, harassment, or platform policy routes may be more relevant.
When should I get specialist support?
Consider specialist support for intimate, threatening, child safety, or high-risk cases.