The nudifier boom: 705 million downloads. 99% women. One state finally did something about it

Source: Jackie Snow, Contributing Editor  Most people, when they think about AI deepfakes, think about porn. They are not wrong. What they probably do not know is the scale. In 2023, one survey found that deepfake pornography made up 98% of all deepfake videos online. Ninety-nine percent of those depicted women. The technology that the AI industry spent years worrying might destabilize democracy has been deployed, overwhelmingly, to sexualize real women without their knowledge. Last week, Minnesota decided to do something about it. The state Senate voted 65-0 to ban nudification apps, the…

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LA: Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled

Source: yahoo.com 12/21/25 THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed. Among the…

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CA: A Beverly Hills middle school is investigating students sharing AI-made nude photos of classmates

Source: nbcnews.com 2/27/24 Students at a middle school in Beverly Hills, California, used artificial intelligence technology to create fake nude photos of their classmates, according to school administrators. Now, the community is grappling with the fallout. School officials at Beverly Vista Middle School were made aware of the “AI-generated nude photos” of students last week, the district superintendent said in a letter to parents. The superintendent told NBC News the photos included students’ faces superimposed onto nude bodies. The district did not share how it determined the photos were produced…

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