DOJ seizes CFake.com and SOCFake.com in first site shutdowns under the Take It Down Act
Two longstanding fake-nude sites have been seized by the Justice Department following an arrest in France, as enforcement under last year's deepfake…
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Two men charged under Take It Down Act as US deepfake law finally bites
The Take It Down Act has its first defendants, but the same critics who warned about over-removal are watching to see whether…
Apple and Google app stores ‘elevate and promote’ AI nudify apps, new report finds
The Tech Transparency Project found 31 AI nudify apps rated suitable for minors, apps with 483 million combined downloads, and both stores…
The AI Act mostly ignores adult content. That’s not entirely good news
The EU's AI Act puts most adult industry AI — chatbots, deepfakes, content moderation — in its lowest risk categories. That means…
20 things that happened in sextech in 2025
Sex robots with AI chatbots, grinder toys, thrusting gun dildos, and an AI teddy that gave bondage advice. Here's everything that happened…
Pornhub says uploaded content isn’t used for training generative AI, despite terms seemingly allowing it
Pornhub has told SEXTECHGUIDE that the site doesn’t use creators’ uploaded content for generative AI training, at a time when conversations about…
London Tech Abuse Conference 2026 to cover deepfakes, cyberstalking and online dating
University College London will bring together researchers, frontline workers and people with lived experience of technology-facilitated abuse at a three-day conference in…
Man hit with record AUD $343,000 fine for posting deepfake porn in Australia
Australia just sent a powerful message to deepfake criminals. Anthony Rotondo copped a massive AUD $343,000 fine – the country's first major…
Grok’s ‘spicy’ AI video tool is already controversial (obviously)
Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok Imagine now generates ‘spicy’ images and videos, raising alarms over deepfake abuse after tests showed it can…
Clothoff deepfake app expands despite porn crackdown, whistleblower says
Clothoff, an AI ‘nudify’ app that uses deepfake technology to make fake nude images of people, is reportedly planning an aggressive global…
Denmark to use copyright law to fight nonconsensual deepfakes
Denmark is set to change its copyright laws to give people the legal rights to their facial and body features and voice,…
Meta sues over AI ‘nudify’ app adverts flooding Instagram
Meta is suing an AI ‘nudify’ app company, as part of a crackdown the media giant says it is undertaking on such…
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New ‘x-ray vision’ apps launch following removal of original DeepNude
107 votesYou’d need to have been living under a digital rock to miss the uproar about the DeepNude app launched briefly earlier this…
DeepNude app shuts down after going viral – but deepfake tech isn’t going away
34 votesA deepfake ‘x-ray vision’ app that algorithmically undressed photos of women was taken down by its creator last week. Users of the…
Concerns over ‘one-click’ deepfake porn videos as extortion scams on the rise
21 votesThe deeply troubling capabilities of deepfake porn video technology have been highlighted by the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) app,…
Deepfake porn fears: AI-generated faces as realistic as real faces, research finds
20 votesResearchers studying images of faces created by artificial intelligence (AI) have called for new guidelines in the face of the potential misuse…
16 AI porn generator sites sued in US ‘nudify’ lawsuit
17 votesA San Francisco City attorney has launched what he calls a “first-of-its-kind” lawsuit against 16 so-called ‘nudify’ websites and apps, that allegedly…
‘Robot licking human’: DALL-E 2 can create intimate images, but don’t expect AI porn
16 votesRecent technological leaps in the field of images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) have been highlighted by the emergence of DALL-E 2:…
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Australia seeks record fine in first deepfake porn case as global crackdown intensifies
Undress.cc and US porn site investigated by Ofcom over new age verification rules
Huge deepfake porn site ‘Mr Deepfakes’ has shut down and ‘will not be relaunching’
Take It Down Act: Sharing non-consensual deepfake porn to become illegal in the US
‘Legs open’, case closed? Four arrested in Japan for selling AI-generated porn
Rise of AI kissing apps creates tangle of ethics issues
Deepfake porn app claims to work with AI abuse victim organization, provides no evidence
UK to criminalize owning AI tools designed to make child sexual abuse material, amid wider AI crackdown
UK deepfake law proposes up to two years in prison for porn creators
Deepfake porn guides easily accessible via search engines, despite crackdown
Why sex workers and advocates want to be part of AI regulation talks
US and UK governments form online safety group to tackle generative AI risks
Sex-positive industry coalition calls out ‘critical gap’ in EU AI regulation
Watching deepfake porn will be illegal in South Korea, amid ‘digital sex crime epidemic’
Microsoft hooks up with StopNCII to tackle non-consensual deepfakes on Bing
16 AI porn generator sites sued in US ‘nudify’ lawsuit
Google’s anti-deepfake tools for Search are getting better at hiding results and removing images
Google is cracking down on deepfake porn via Search throttling and advert bans
UK court imposes first ban on using generative AI tools, in ‘landmark’ abuse case
Creating non-consensual deepfakes to be made illegal in England and Wales, but there are still gray areas
Nuca digital camera uses AI to create deepfake nude photos almost instantly
‘Sending a message’: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sues over deepfake porn
OpenAI’s Sora AI video model could allow nudity, the company says
US plans to introduce watermark rules for AI images and videos
‘Irrevocable harm’: US bill would criminalize sharing non-consensual deepfake porn
SexLikeReal is working on deepfake VR face-swapping
‘Shut it all down’: AI backlash gains traction with support from industry leaders
ChatGPT video update incoming, adult content creators to invariably test it limits
Sharing deepfake porn without consent will be illegal in UK
‘The best you’ve ever looked’: PhotoAI will sell you fake photos of yourself to use on dating apps
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from the DeepNude app's brief viral moment through the nudify industry's current expansion, mapping…
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