Tenshi Deepfake |work|

As digital rights lawyer Maya Chen put it: “We have laws against impersonating a person. We have no laws against impersonating a fictional persona that a real person uses to make a living. That is the Tenshi loophole.”

Despite these laws, enforcement is nightmare. Deepfake creators hide behind VPNs, cryptocurrency, and the pseudonymity of the "tenshi deepfake" underground. As one anonymous creator told an investigator in the 2025 HoloLeaks case: “You can’t sue a ghost. I am the ghost inside the machine.” tenshi deepfake