As AI-powered image generators have become more accessible, so have websites that digitally remove the clothes of people in photos. One of these sites has an unsettling feature that provides a glimpse of how these apps are used: two feeds of what appear to be photos uploaded by users who want to "nudify" the subjects. The feeds of images are a shocking display of intended victims. WIRED saw some images of girls who were clearly children. Other photos showed adults and had captions indicating that they were female friends or female strangers.

Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request. The arrest reports say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the images of the students who were "between the ages of 12 and 13." The Florida case appears to be the first arrests and criminal charges as a result of sharing AI-generated nude images to come to light. The boys were charged with third-degree felonies--the same level of crimes such as grand theft auto or false imprisonment--under a state law passed in 2022. It makes it a felony to share "any altered sexual depiction" of a person without their consent.