YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps

Wired AI · 2 days ago

YouTube and X referred over 5.7 million visits to nudify apps and websites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82 million visits despite policies prohibiting sexually explicit content and links to such sites. Some nudify tools cost as little as $1 per image and collectively generate approximately $36 million annually, with users targeting people for blackmail, employment sabotage, and other harmful purposes. The platforms' enforcement of existing policies against nonconsensual intimate imagery appears inadequate, effectively enabling the proliferation of tools that create deepfake sexual content without consent.