The End Of Undress Apps? San Francisco To Sue Most Popular Nudify Tools
San Francisco may be known as the ‘city of love’, but just don’t go mentally undressing any of the beautiful women you pass in the street, or share a carriage with in the subway. Such things are definitely not approved of there, and that is why the Attorney of the city (David Chiu) has launched an unprecedented legal attack on the scourge of ‘undress sites’ that allow you to digitally undress your crush, instead of merely mentally doing so.
The lawsuit claims that undress sites enable revenge porn, deepfake porn, and the creation of child pornography. It’s not clear if sixteen of the most popular nudify sites have been chosen, and this is an attack on undress tools in general, or whether the Attorny has evidence of insufficient safeguards in place at these particular sites covered by the lawsuit. If the action nis successful and the sites are closed down, then the aim is apparently to take action against any new sites that may replace them.
The lawsuit does not mention the site’s names, but does point out the advertising blurb of one of them, which boasts that you no longer have to “waste time” getting a girl out on dates, when you can simply use their tool to get her nudes. It also mentions that the sites have been visited collectively 200 million times in the first six months of this year alone.
Interestingly, all of the sites included in the action appear to be based overseas, and intends to both sue the site owners for damages, as well as have the sites closed down. Although the lawsuit claims that the sites contravene California’s deepfake porn laws, as far as I know, it is only illegal to share deepfake porn under (a recent) Californian law. Whether a US politician can successfully sue or close down an overseas based site is an open question, particularly on the grounds of what some may have used the site/tool for (and even there, the action appears to be based on nefarious cases of the misuse of undress tech in general).
