--- title: ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity description: It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence. canonical: https://time.com/6344068/nudify-apps-undress-photos-women-artificial-intelligence/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-12-08T06:55:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-09T01:10:21.000Z article:section: Business og:title: ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity og:description: It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence. og:url: https://time.com/6344068/nudify-apps-undress-photos-women-artificial-intelligence/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt447ec9a395e3ad78/698a4313cabb1d26d2e520a2/Artificial-intelligence-app-woman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Human Vs Robot og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity twitter:description: It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt447ec9a395e3ad78/698a4313cabb1d26d2e520a2/Artificial-intelligence-app-woman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity > Sponsored content. 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[Watch (HLS stream): What Keeps These TIME100 AI Innovators Up At Night?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WQzLkDuX.m3u8) (2:22)  _Published 2023-09-06. TIME100 AI Innovators on the concerns they have for the adoption of AI going forward._ by [Margi Murphy / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Margi Murphy / Bloomberg Contributor Updated: Dec 9, 2023 1:10 AM UTCPublished: Dec 8, 2023 6:55 AM UTC  Apps that use artificial intelligence to undress women are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence. Apps that use artificial intelligence to undress women are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence.imaginima—Getty Images/iStock by [Margi Murphy / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Margi Murphy / Bloomberg Contributor Updated: Dec 9, 2023 1:10 AM UTCPublished: Dec 8, 2023 6:55 AM UTC Apps and websites that use artificial intelligence to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity, according to researchers. In September alone, 24 million people visited undressing websites, the social network analysis company Graphika found. Many of these undressing, or “nudify,” services use popular social networks for marketing, according to Graphika. For instance, since the beginning of this year, the number of links advertising undressing apps increased more than 2,400% on social media, including on X and Reddit, the researchers said. The services use AI to recreate an image so that the person is nude. Many of the services only work on women. **Read More:** [_Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down_](https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/) These apps are part of a worrying trend of non-consensual pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence — a type of fabricated media known as deepfake pornography. Its proliferation runs into serious legal and ethical hurdles, as the images are often taken from social media and distributed without the consent, control or knowledge of the subject. The rise in popularity corresponds to the release of several open source diffusion models, or artificial intelligence that can create images that are far superior to those created just a few years ago, Graphika said. Because they are open source, the models that the app developers use are available for free. “You can create something that actually looks realistic,” said Santiago Lakatos, an analyst at Graphika, noting that previous deepfakes were often blurry. ### More From TIME One image posted to X advertising an undressing app used language that suggests customers could create nude images and then send them to the person whose image was digitally undressed, inciting harassment. One of the apps, meanwhile, has paid for sponsored content on Google’s YouTube, and appears first when searching with the word “nudify.” A Google spokesperson said the company doesn’t allow ads “that contain sexually explicit content.” “We’ve reviewed the ads in question and are removing those that violate our policies,” the company said. A Reddit spokesperson said the site prohibits any non-consensual sharing of faked sexually explicit material and had banned several domains as a result of the research. X didn’t respond to a request for comment. In addition to the rise in traffic, the services, some of which charge $9.99 a month, claim on their websites that they are attracting a lot of customers. “They are doing a lot of business,” Lakatos said. Describing one of the undressing apps, he said, “If you take them at their word, their website advertises that it has more than a thousand users per day.” Non-consensual pornography of public figures has long been a scourge of the internet, but privacy experts are growing concerned that advances in AI technology have made deepfake software easier and more effective. “We are seeing more and more of this being done by ordinary people with ordinary targets,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “You see it among high school children and people who are in college.” Many victims never find out about the images, but even those who do may struggle to get law enforcement to investigate or to find funds to pursue legal action, Galperin said. **Read More:** [_The Heated Debate Over Who Should Control Access to AI_](https://time.com/6308604/meta-ai-access-open-source/) There is currently no federal law banning the creation of deepfake pornography, though the U.S. government does outlaw generation of these kinds of images of minors. In November, a North Carolina child psychiatrist was sentenced to 40 years in prison for using undressing apps on photos of his patients, the first prosecution of its kind under law banning deepfake generation of child sexual abuse material. TikTok has blocked the keyword “undress,” a popular search term associated with the services, warning anyone searching for the word that it “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines,” according to the app. A TikTok representative declined to elaborate. In response to questions, Meta Platforms Inc. also began blocking key words associated with searching for undressing apps. 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