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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 23h

If you want to read about the initial reporting on this site, check out the article below. www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11...

AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes - bellingcat

A US artificial intelligence company surreptitiously collected money for a service that can create nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes using financial services company Stripe, which bans processing p...

www.bellingcat.com

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 23h

These people are not in this for 'the love of the game.' They do this because they want money. Cutting off the funding and payment streams is one of the most effective ways, from the bottom up, we can stop these sites.

It is a slower death, but it does get the job done.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 23h

This is like many other deepfake porn sites out there that get left and abandoned. No one wants to take the responsibility of ownership or the harm they may have caused. But they don't fully remove the site, even if they leave it for the next project.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 23h

While the project is probably abandoned, the site is still 'up' allowing users to view non-consensual deepfakes and possibly still receive funds via crypto.

The site owners probably think little harm of leaving the site up, actively hosting the content, despite abandoning the site.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 23h

I did find a Reddit post from someone claiming they were on the dev team and that the site is no longer being maintained. This could be some random person though.

Their discover page showed publicly shared AI porn made by users. While no new content is being shared, they still host older images

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 23h

Update: Back in May, I noticed that an AI deepfake porn site I previously reported on had its Telegram channel disappear. I'd been casually following the site since its rebrand from Anydream to Genfluence.

It has been months later, no new Telegram, and no new photos on their 'discover' page.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 1d

welp. that's one I haven't heard before

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

"While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: 'Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes'"

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 2d

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 2d

Article here:
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 2d

There is reading @jackjenkins.me's article where he describes a minister being hit in the head with pepper balls by agents on a roof while praying, and you hope that this is an exaggeration. But seeing it verifies that it is exactly as described.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 3d

Clothoff has repeatedly listed companies on their site that have no affiliation with them. Most likely this company, which got listed after we confronted them about the last company on their site, is innocent.

I hope Garante, the Italian data protection authority, actually investigates more.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 3d

While I'm glad to see some action from Italy against AI-nudify sites (specifically Clothoff in this case), they unfortunately incorrectly pose this ban on the current company listed on Clothoff's page, a LTD in the British Virgin Islands.

www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/ho...

COMUNICATO STAMPA - Deepfake, Garante: stop a Clothoff, l’app che spoglia le persone

www.garanteprivacy.it

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 3d

At some point, we're going to have a bunch of people claiming they never voted for Trump to try to distance themselves from this administration when they clearly did vote for him.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 6d

This took place near the Rico Fresh supermarket on Armitage in Chicago.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 6d

This is another angle of that same incident

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 6d

Today, masked agents (I assume to be BP or ICE agents from the badge) threw tear gas canisters toward civilians because they were blocked in traffic and were heckeled at

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 7d

Parody government

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 7d

ah it played as a gif, but uploaded as an image 🙃

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 7d

I'm unfortunately going to get a lot of use out of this gif

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 10d

The one positive about this administration being so into theatrics and these public speeches is that we will have so much video footage to show our kids about how America allowed this regime to go unchecked.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 10d

So the Geneva convention is woke now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13d

OUTRAGEOUS behavior from the Department of Justice; a seasoned prosecutor was fired for reminding a Stephen Miller ally that he was required to obey the Constitution and the valid orders of a federal court.

Documents reviewed by The New York Times show that the July 15 firing of Ms. Beckwith occurred less than six hours after she told Mr. Bovino, the Border Patrol chief in charge of the Southern California raids, that a court order prevented him from arresting people without probable cause in a vast expanse that stretches from the Oregon border to Bakersfield. She was removed not only from her post as acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of California, but from the office altogether.

“It’s unjust,” she said of the firings across the federal government this year, in an interview. “We have to stand up and insist the laws be followed.”

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 14d

There is a lot happening in this memo but I can't get over the URL designated for Trump's domestic terrorism memo. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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