AI Videos Made From My Photo Sold on Telegram: Removal

Someone took the profile photo from your account, used AI to put your face on sexualised videos, and posted them across several accounts. Now a paid Telegram channel is selling more of them, and people you know are sending you links asking if it is you. You did nothing to cause this. This guide is about getting it removed and slowing its spread, without you having to watch, collect or share the material. It covers how to list every account, which report to use on Instagram, TikTok and Telegram, when hashing tools can help, and how to protect your photo from being reused.

Last checked: 12 November 2026.

#Quick Answer

Write down the link to every Instagram account, TikTok account and Telegram channel using your face, without downloading or buying anything. Report each Instagram and TikTok account and post under the nudity or non-consensual intimate imagery reasons. Email abuse@telegram.org with the t.me links. Consider StopNCII only with copies you already hold, and contact the police where you live.

#This Is Happening to Other Women Too

On 4 November 2026, Media.am reported that sexualised AI videos using a real woman's face, taken from the profile picture on her private account, had spread across several Instagram accounts, a TikTok account and a paid Telegram channel, and that reports to Meta had not yet removed them. We are not naming her or linking to the report. Her account shows how one public profile photo can be enough, and why reports need to go to every platform at once.

#Step 1: List Every Account Without Spreading the Content

Make one private list before you report anything. Do not download, save, forward or buy any of the videos to build it. If a friend sent you a link, ask them for the link only, then ask them to delete what they received.

Meta's page on what to do if someone shares an intimate photo of you explains how to report it, including with the help of a friend, and where to get support. You do not need to keep copies of the videos to report them. If the police later ask for evidence, they can tell you how they want it.

#Step 2: Report on Instagram

Meta's Adult sexual exploitation policy says it does not allow sharing, threatening to share, offering or asking for non-consensual intimate imagery, and it states that this includes digitally created or AI-generated imagery. One of the signals Meta lists for lack of consent is a report from the person depicted in the image. That makes your own report important.

• Report each account from its profile, and report the individual posts or reels if you can see them without saving them.
• Choose the reason closest to nudity or sexual activity, or to sharing intimate images without consent. Menu wording varies by app version and region.
• Meta's page on how to report non-consensual intimate images says you can use existing reporting, or a specialised form that is available to all US residents. It also says sharing or threatening to share intimate images, including deepfakes, without consent is prohibited.
• Ask a trusted friend to report too if you cannot face looking at the accounts. Meta's intimate photo guidance says that if you do not have an Instagram account, you can report with the help of a friend.

Our guide to Instagram deepfake removal routes covers the Instagram side in more detail.

#Step 3: Report on TikTok

TikTok's Safety and Civility guidelines say it does not allow content that shows or promotes sexual abuse or exploitation of adults, including image-based sexual abuse, and link to a route for people who think their intimate privacy has been violated. TikTok's report a post page says to tap the Share button or press and hold the post, tap Report, choose a reason and submit. Report the account as well as each post.

#Step 4: Report the Telegram Channel Without Joining It

Telegram's FAQ says all Telegram apps have Report buttons for illegal content, and that you can also use its automated takedown email address, abuse@telegram.org. It asks that email takedown requests include links, such as t.me links or @usernames, to the content that needs attention. Telegram's Safety Overview says users can report messages by tapping, holding or right-clicking them and selecting Report.

1. Copy the channel's t.me link or @username from the promotion that led you to it. Do not join or pay for the channel.
2. Email abuse@telegram.org from an address you control, with the subject line naming the channel link.
3. In the body, say that the channel shares and sells AI-generated sexual videos of you made without consent, and list every t.me link you have.
4. Do not attach the videos. Links are what Telegram asks for.
5. If the channel also pretends to be you, Telegram's FAQ says to contact @NoToScam about scammers impersonating you.

Our guide on getting a Telegram channel taken down covers what to expect after the report.

#When Hashing With StopNCII Helps

StopNCII.org is a free tool run by the Revenge Porn Helpline. It creates a hash, a digital fingerprint, of an image or video directly on your device and shares only the hash with participating companies so they can detect and remove matching copies. Its own criteria ask whether you are the person in the image, whether you were 18 or older when it was taken and are over 18 now, and whether you still have the image or video.

• Only use StopNCII with copies you already hold. Do not download or buy copies to use it.
• Read its criteria and FAQ to check whether it fits AI-generated imagery of you before you start.
• Hashing matches copies of the same file. Edited or newly generated versions may need new reports.
• Telegram is not something we can confirm as a participating company, so keep reporting the channel directly.

#Step 5: Protect Your Profile Photo

In the case above, the face came from a single profile photo on a private account. On many apps, profile photos can still be seen by people who do not follow you. Consider changing your profile photo on every app to one that does not show your face clearly, and review who can see your photos and stories. This does not remove what has already been made, but it can stop new material being built from fresh photos.

#Police and What Platforms Decide

Meta's guidance suggests contacting local law enforcement to see whether sharing this kind of material is illegal where you live, and speaking to a victim advocate. Laws on AI sexual imagery differ by country. Platforms decide each report on their own rules, and none publishes a fixed timeline. A removed account can return under a new name, so keep your list and report again when it does. Our guide to removing an AI deepfake video covers other platforms.

#When It Is Safer to Get Expert Help

This kind of abuse spreads across several apps at once, the accounts change names, and every report needs the right link and reason. Doing it alone also means looking at material that is hard to see.

If you would rather not handle it yourself, having an experienced team map and report it is the safer choice. AwareXone works from the links you or a trusted person provide, builds the takedown list, prepares report text for each platform for you to submit, and tracks what comes down. We never ask you to send us the images or videos, we never ask for your password or codes, and we cannot promise a removal. Apply for case review through our content removal help service, and read how we work on our trust page.

#Frequently Asked Questions