News Summary

• Nudify and undress websites and bots have flourished since 2019, after originally spawning from the tools and processes used to create the first explicit “deepfakes” Networks of interconnected companies, as Bellingcat has reported, have appeared online offering the technology and making money from the systems.
• The services use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery; they often make money by selling “credits” or subscriptions that can be used to generate photos.
• They have been supercharged by the wave of generative AI image generators that have appeared in the past few years.