Meta’s crackdown on adult content fails to stop AI nudify apps from flourishing [Video]

Adult content, including AI-generated nudes, remains banned on Facebook and Instagram, despite recent policy changes at Meta.

However, that hasn’t stopped “nudify” apps — platforms that create nonconsensual AI-generated nudes of celebrities and influencers — from advertising on Meta’s platforms. And those ads have been extremely successful for at least one service called Crush AI.

According to a new report from 404Media, as originally reported in Alexios Mantzarlis’ Faked Up newsletter, the Crush AI modifier app receives the vast majority of its traffic from Meta platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. According to Similarweb’s data, last month Crush AI received more than a quarter of a million visits to its service — and roughly 90 percent of that traffic was from Meta’s platforms.

Crush AI makes it quite clear what the purpose of its service is in its advertisements. The company’s ads include photos of real-life individuals like Instagram influencer and model Mikayla Demaiter and OnlyFans …