A New Jersey lawsuit shows how hard it is to fight deepfake porn | TechCrunch

"For more than two years, an app called ClothOff has been terrorizing young women online - and it's been maddeningly difficult to stop. The app has been taken down from the two major app stores and it's banned from most social platforms, but it's still available on the web and through a Telegram bot. In October, a clinic at Yale Law School filed a lawsuit that would take down the app entirely, forcing the owners to delete all images and cease operation entirely. But simply finding the defendants has been a challenge."

""It's incorporated in the British Virgin Islands," explains Professor John Langford, a co-lead counsel in the lawsuit, "but we believe it's run by a brother and sister and Belarus. It may even be part of a larger network around the world." It's a bitter lesson in the wake of the recent flood of non-consensual pornography generated by Elon Musk's xAI, which included many underage victims."

ClothOff generates non-consensual sexual images of young women and remains accessible on the web and via a Telegram bot despite removal from major app stores and many social platforms. A Yale Law School clinic filed suit seeking to force owners to delete images and cease operations, but identifying and locating defendants has been difficult because of offshore incorporation and suspected operators in Belarus. The recent surge of AI-generated non-consensual pornography, including underage victims linked to xAI, exposes enforcement gaps. Child sexual abuse material created by AI is illegal to produce, transmit, or store, yet image-generating platforms remain hard to police and prosecute; local authorities have at times declined prosecution due to difficulties obtaining device evidence.

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