Coverage dossier
Seven years of coverage on non-consensual intimate imagery, from hidden-camera voyeurism and leaked celebrity tapes to the deepfake apps now doing the work at scale. We've followed the legislation (UK, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the US Take It Down Act) alongside the platforms and operators that keep finding ways around it, from MrDeepFakes to ClothOff to Grok's 'spicy' mode. The through-line is depressingly consistent: enforcement keeps lagging the tech, and victims keep paying for the gap.
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Pornhub has told SEXTECHGUIDE it does not use uploaded creator content for generative AI training, despite Terms of Service language that appears to permit such use. The article examines the gap between the site's…
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Australian man Anthony Rotondo has been fined AUD $343,000 by the Federal Court for posting deepfake intimate images of prominent women on MrDeepFakes without consent, marking Australia's first major penalty under the Online Safety…
xAI has launched Grok Imagine, an AI image and video generation tool with a 'spicy' mode enabling topless content, available to paid subscribers. The tool has drawn immediate controversy after tests revealed it can…
A whistleblower investigation by Der Spiegel reveals that Clothoff, a major AI nudify/deepfake app linked to a UK-registered company, is aggressively expanding into European markets and targeting young men despite a global crackdown on…
Australia's eSafety Commissioner is pursuing a record AUD $450,000 fine against Anthony Rotondo in the country's first deepfake porn court case, after he posted nonconsensual deepfake images of prominent women on the now-defunct Mr…
Mr Deepfakes, widely considered the world's largest nonconsensual deepfake porn site with 13 million monthly visitors, has shut down citing a critical service provider termination and data loss. The closure coincides with the passage…
The Take It Down Act was passed by US Congress on April 28, 2025, criminalizing the sharing of non-consensual explicit content including AI-generated deepfakes, with prison sentences up to two years for adults and…
An investigation by Bellingcat reveals that deepfake nudification app ClothOff claims to donate to and collaborate with an AI victim support organization called ASU Label, which shows multiple signs of being illegitimate or fabricated….
The UK government has announced plans to criminalize the creation of non-consensual deepfake porn as part of its Crime and Policing Bill, with offenders facing up to two years in prison. The legislation expands…
An investigation by Glamour Magazine found that major search engines including Google, Bing, and Yahoo continue to surface tutorials, guides, and tools for creating deepfake porn despite stated crackdowns on nonconsensual intimate imagery. The…
A German condom brand Billy Boy has launched 'Camdom,' an app that syncs partners' phones to disable cameras and microphones during sex, aiming to prevent nonconsensual recording and revenge porn. The article covers how…
South Korea has passed legislation criminalizing the watching, buying, or possessing of sexually explicit deepfake content, with penalties of up to three years in jail and fines of $22,600. The law also increases penalties…
Microsoft has partnered with StopNCII to integrate its hash-matching system into Bing, allowing non-consensual deepfake images to be identified and removed from search results. The article examines how this fits into a broader industry…
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu has filed a landmark lawsuit against 16 AI 'nudify' websites and apps for generating non-consensual deepfake pornographic content of real women and potentially children. The defendants are accused…
Google has updated its Search algorithms to suppress non-consensual deepfake porn results and expanded the scope of removal requests to include duplicate images. The article examines both the effectiveness of these new measures and…
Google has implemented two key measures to combat deepfake porn: throttling its visibility in search results and banning ads that promote synthetic sexually explicit content via a policy effective May 30, 2024. The article…
England and Wales are set to criminalize the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography through an amendment to the criminal justice bill, building on the 2023 Online Safety Act which banned sharing such content. The…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is suing two men for defamation over deepfake porn videos featuring her likeness, seeking €100,000 in damages in a case that could set a legal precedent in Italy. The…
The article covers President Biden's executive order on AI regulation, focusing on proposed watermarking standards for AI-generated content that could help identify deepfake images and videos, including deepfake porn. It contextualizes the policy within…
Aylo, formerly MindGeek, has partnered with StopNCII.org to combat non-consensual intimate image abuse across its platforms including Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube. The partnership uses digital fingerprinting technology to flag and remove revenge porn content….
A US bill introduced by Congressman Joe Morelle in May 2023 would criminalize the creation and sharing of non-consensual deepfake pornography, enabling both criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits against offenders while protecting victim anonymity….
The article covers the growing backlash against rapid AI development, centered on a Future of Life Institute open letter calling for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, signed by…
The article covers two parallel anti-revenge porn initiatives: the upcoming UK app Minerva, funded by DCMS and developed by SWGfL, which helps victims document and report non-consensual intimate image abuse, and the expansion of…
The UK government is moving to make sharing non-consensual deepfake pornography illegal in England and Wales through the Online Safety Bill, removing the need for prosecutors to prove intent to cause harm. The legislation…
This article examines the BBC documentary exposing MrDeepFakes, a site with 13 million monthly visitors hosting over 20,000 non-consensual deepfake porn videos of celebrities. The site's anonymous founder defended the content by claiming consent…
India's Ministry of Electronics and IT blocked 67 adult websites including Pornhub, Brazzers, BangBros, AdultFriendFinder, and Chaturbate in September 2022, citing 'obscene material' that tarnishes women's modesty. The move brings India's total banned porn…
A BBC investigation has uncovered widespread 'collector culture' on Reddit, where tens of thousands of users share and sell non-consensual explicit images of women, often accompanied by personal details that lead to rape and…
Scam loan apps in Mexico are using AI-generated fake nude images of victims, edited onto their faces, to harass and extort borrowers by sending the images to their family members. An investigation by Rest…
This article traces the history of celebrity sex tapes from 1994 to 2019, examining how technology, legal frameworks, and public attitudes have evolved around non-consensual and consensual intimate footage. It highlights the persistent gender…
New research from Lancaster University and UC Berkeley finds that AI-generated faces created by GANs are indistinguishable from real faces, with participants achieving only 48.2% accuracy in identifying fakes. The study also found AI…
This comprehensive guide explores the intersection of consent and sextech, covering smart sex toys, dating apps, the digital realm, VR, and consent-focused apps. It examines how technology can both enable and undermine consent, drawing…
402 women deceived into making explicit videos for GirlsDoPorn have been granted legal ownership of those videos by a San Diego judge, enabling them to issue DMCA takedown notices. The ruling follows a sex…
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice has proposed prison sentences of up to seven years for producing and distributing deepfake porn content, prompted by the arrest of a YouTuber who allegedly profited from deepfakes featuring over…
A new AI app enabling one-click deepfake porn creation by swapping faces into existing videos has raised serious concerns about misuse for revenge porn and extortion scams. The article examines the app's capabilities, the…
The UK Parliament has established a 12-person 'super committee' to conduct detailed scrutiny of the Online Safety Bill, which would require social media platforms to remove illegal or harmful content or face fines and…
34 women have filed a landmark lawsuit against MindGeek, Pornhub's parent company, alleging the platform knowingly profited from non-consensual explicit content including child sexual exploitation material and rape videos. The lawsuit invokes the Victims…
Pornhub introduced sweeping policy changes in December 2020, banning unverified user uploads and removing all previously uploaded unverified content, in response to a New York Times exposé alleging the platform hosted child sexual abuse…
South Korea has amended its sex crimes legislation to explicitly classify deepfake pornography as a sex crime, carrying penalties of up to five years in prison or a $40,500 fine. The move comes after…
This article reports on Deeptrace's findings that 96% of deepfake videos online are pornographic, almost exclusively targeting non-consenting women, with the number of such videos nearly doubling in seven months. It examines the scale…
Following the brief release and removal of the original DeepNude app, two successor services (DeepNude.to and NudifierApp) have launched using the same AI-based image undressing technology. The article investigates both services through interviews with…
The DeepNude app, which used AI to algorithmically undress photos of women, was shut down by its creator after going viral, but the article argues the underlying technology remains a persistent threat. The piece…
The UK's Law Commission is launching a review of laws governing non-consensual intimate images, including deepfake pornography and cyber-flashing, with findings expected in 2021. The review aims to close legal gaps not covered by…
A viral tweet about a facial recognition algorithm that cross-referenced porn performers' faces with social media profiles sparked widespread criticism, but the developer attributed to the software claims he didn't build it and that…
This opinion piece examines the growing problem of covert camera technology being used to secretly record people, covering upskirting, hidden cameras in public toilets, and deepfake pornography. The author argues that authorities face an…
