AI caused my content creation from years ago back to haunt me. What now?

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Throwaway account for obv reasons.

Back before covid I was a teen (post 18 for reference), and I didn't have coping skills nor did I make smart choices. I ended up in a weird relationship with an older man who pressured me to cam model. (Yes I know i chose to do it, but hindsight without his pressure I never would have. Please be kind to me.)

It's been 6-7 years since I did it. I only made content on one site and it was almost all livestream. I never made it big and only did it in total for a month. I swore I deleted everything when I had a "what the heck am I doing" moment.

I thought I made it out free. I didn't have an OF, didn't have saved content.

I'm in a healthy relationship. He knows I cam-ed and while he hates it, he knows thats not who I am anymore and we haven't talked on it in over a year.

Flash forward to today. Someone I went to highschool with messages me.They ask if Im selling content that they could by and if not, if I wanted my old content removed. I'm shocked. First I say "I am in a relationship and monogamous." Then I keep it vague, thinking maybe they are testing me to see if i make content. I think there's no way they saw it bc I never used my name and I blocked out all the states around me when I streamed. I ask them what gave them the feeling I had content. They then send me linkS. Told me that they used a picture of my face and an AI search engine and found my old stream page, and my image on third party sites, full nude.

I want to crawl in a hole and die. I dont have access to the old site as ex (that pressured me) has the email log in. So I can't get them down that way. I can't exactly DCMA bc I think legally since I posted them on the original site, I consented.

I emailed the original site and begged them to remove all content under that user and explained the lack of consent. I blocked the person that reached out to me. For reference, I don't keep in touch with anyone from highschool, I just have alot of people I followed years ago and never got rid of. I have 0 things posted on my socials.

I feel awful. Like this haunting disgusted feeling. I feel like my digital footprint that I thought I had buried is back forever with Ai. I'm also so creeped thinking maybe my employer, neighbors, etc can possibly use my face to find my old content. Honestly if I hadn't had the years of therapy, this kind of situation would have lead me to off myself.

What do I do? I don't keep anything from my partner, but right now hes so stressed with a crazy full plate and about to travel for work for weeks (bc he is amazing and is handling sooo much) and I know this would just break his heart. We previously talked about how I deleted my content but both acknowledged the possibility of ghost I thought maybe it was downloaded on a strangers computer in another country, I never thought AI would make people who know me able to find it. Do I tell him? I already blocked the person who messaged me and I dont allow men to message me (tbh this one got through bc they trans'ed to female and changed name). I don't feel like thats the big thing to have to be nervous to tell my partner. Do I just not tell my partner and hope this goes away and is never a problem again? That feel soo dishonest, but at the same time I don't think telling him gives us the ability to do anything about it more than I have.

Is there more I can do to scrub it? Any tools muttered to mass delete my face off the internet? How do I get my stomach out of a knot?

Disclaimer to young folks, it's not worth the attention, nor the money.

Please please be kind to me. I've already learned my lesson. Help.

Posted Jun 3, 2025, 3:55 AM UTC

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