Key Points
- Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites
- The sites use tech from US companies to create nonconsensual and abusive images of women and girls
- The sites\’ creators may be making millions of dollars each year
- Most of the sites rely on tech services from Google
- Amazon
- and Cloudflare to operate and stay online
- The websites had a combined average of 18.5 million visitors for each of the past six months
- The nudify websites use a host of other services
- such as payment systems
- provided by mainstream companies
- Tech companies and regulators have taken a glacial approach to tackling abusive deepfakes

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Introduction to Nudify Websites
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI \
Source: wired.com