In what I think may be previously unreported news, the SF City Attorney's office told me that they are confident more AI nudifiers will be shutting down as a consequence of their lawsuit -- including ones based overseas.

If platforms won't do it out of the good of their hearts, they may need to be coerced.

California's AB 621, passed in October, may make them responsible for providing services to nonconsensual deepfake nude providers if they're notified and don't act.

Here's what the author of the law told me:

The lowest-hanging fruit should be deplatforming.

There is no reason Meta can't get better at blocking ads like these, nor Apple from hosting the underlying apps. There is no reason for Google to provide single-sign on to 5 of the top 10 nudifiers, or Cloudflare to provide CDN services.

For today's article, I spoke to a dozen experts working on countermeasures to this problem.

I came out of it with uncharacteristic optimism that the concerted effort of the many people focusing on this problem may start yielding results in 2026. But it’s going to take work.

I’m sick and tired of writing about these awful tools. But if we think about digital safety in terms of reducing harms that are both prevalent and acute, this has to be one of the top current concerns from generative AI. Nudifiers reach millions and make millions.

We are simply adopting the language that the model developers use for their own models. See, for example, this: platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...