For years, so -called “Nudify” programs and websites have a funeral online, allowing people to create inconsistent and abusive images of Women and girlsincluding Child sexual abuse. Despite some lawmakers and technology companies taking steps to limit the harmful services, millions of people are still accessing websites monthly, and the creators of the websites may manufacture millions of dollars a year, new research suggests.
Analysis of 85 nudifada websites and “stripping” – which allows people to upload photos and use AI to generate “naked” images of the topics with just a few clicks – found that most websites depend on TEchnic services from Google, Amazon and Cloudflare to work and stay online. The findings, revealed by an indicatorPublication researching digital deception, says the sites have had a combined average of 18.5 million visitors over the past six months and collectively may raise up to $ 36 million a year.
Alexios Mantzarlis, co-founder of an indicator and Internet security researcher, says that the cowardly nudifier ecosystem has become a “lucrative trade”, which “Laissez-Faire’s approach from Silicon Valley to Generative AI” allowed to persist. “They should stop providing any services to AI nudifiers when it was clear that their only use case was sexual harassment,” Mantzarlis says about technology companies. It is becoming more and more illegal to Create or share explicit deepfakes.
According to the research, Amazon and Cloudflare provide host or content delivery services for 62 of the 85 websites, while Google’s signature system was used in 54 of the websites. NUDIFY websites also use many other services, such as payment systems, provided by major companies.
Amazon Web Services spokesman Ryan Walsh says AWS has clear services that require customers to follow “applicable” laws. “When we receive reports of possible violations of our terms, we act quickly to review and take steps to prevent banned content,” Walsh says, adding that people can report things to its security teams.
“Some of these sites violate our terms, and our teams act to deal with these violations, as well as working on longer -term solutions,” Google Karl Ryan spokesman says, pointing out that Google’s login system requires developers to agree on their policies, which prohibit illegal content and content that is pursuing others.
Cloudflare did not respond to Wired’s request for a comment at the time of writing. Wired does not call the barefoot websites in this story, not to provide them with another exhibition.
Bare and strip websites and bots have has thrived since 2019After originally an outflow of the tools and processes used to create the First explicit “Deepfakes.” Networks of interlocked companiesAs Belingcat reported, it appeared online by offering the technology and earning money from the systems.
Wide, the services use AI to transform photos into inconsistent explicit images; They often make money by selling “credits” or subscriptions usable to generate photos. They have been overloaded by the wave of generative AI -Image generators that have appeared in the past years. Their output is extremely harmful. Photos on social media were stolen and accustomed to create abusive images; Meanwhile, in a A new form of cyberbullying and abuseteenage boys around the world have Created pictures of their classmates. Such an intimate image abuse is worse for victims, and pictures can be Difficult to throw away from the network.
