“The quality is much higher,” says Henry Ajder, an adviser on deepfakes and head of policy and partnerships at synthetic media company Metaphysic. The expansion of this recent site and its partnerships commoditizes those intrusions even further.

With the increased ease of use, targets of harassment have moved from high-profile celebrities and influencers to members of the public. Recent horrifying developments have also included easy-to-use video production. Since then this kind of technology has become as easy to use as selecting a photo and clicking upload. The technology was turned into its first app, dubbed DeepNude, in 2019 although its creator took the app down, its code still circulates. Since the first AI-generated fake porn was created by a Redditor at the end of 2017, these systems have become more sophisticated. The website’s startup-like growth tactics signal a maturity in abusive “nudifying” deepfake technologies, which overwhelmingly target and harm women. The original website has been previously reported on, but the extent of its partner programs has not. The website has made its algorithms available to “partners” through access to its APIs and two spin-off websites have been created by other people. In recent months the website has expanded its services, earning its creator potentially thousands of dollars. Previously, similar technologies have only worked with partially clothed photographs. Researchers say its output is “hyper-realistic,” and unlike similar abusive platforms, it can generate pornographic images even when the person in the original photo is fully clothed. It digitally “removes” clothing from non-nude photos to create nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes.

The website, which WIRED is not naming to limit its amplification, has existed since last year. The expansion efforts have allowed the service to proliferate despite bans placed on its payment infrastructure. A deepfake website that generates “nude” images of women using artificial intelligence is spreading its murky tentacles across the web-spawning look-alike services through partner agreements and recruiting new users through a referral system.

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