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Nudified images are generally banned online, but the tools to make them are being promoted all over social media.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. A proliferation of AI apps that allow users to create sexualized images of real people

have grown into a multi-million dollar industry.

And social media platforms are serving as de facto gateways to these services, despite

the fact that most prohibit the sharing or promotion of this kind of non-consensual intimate imagery.

That's according to a new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

Sina Laubenstein is their director of programs.

So we did a scoping exercise looking to see if we can find websites promoting these tools,

and we've actually found pretty quickly 181 websites offering tools that allow users to

upload images of real people, generate and generate

nudified images or videos based on those images.

A lot of this traffic was also driven by social media platforms.

And I'm not speaking of fringe platforms here and the so-called dark corners of the internet,

but actually by platforms such as YouTube, X, Facebook,

and Instagram, which served kind of like as gateways to these sites and to these tools.

But what we've seen is that especially YouTube and X actually were driving forces.

And can you give me some examples of how these might sort of show up on those

platforms? It's been actually quite easy. So we are looking for how can I access a NUified

tool? Where can I find NUified content or just plainly Nudified tool? And that's how these things are showing up.

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