Inside the NSFW AI Revolution: How AI-Generated Porn Is Changing the Game and Courting Controversy
The Take It Down Act was passed in April 2025 and signed into law in May 2025, making it a federal crime to create or share nonconsensual AI-generated intimate imagery and requiring platforms to remove such content within 48 hours. In May 2025, Mr. Deepfakes shut down after a critical service provider withdrew support, effectively dismantling the central hub of the deepfake porn network. A landmark Sensity report found that 95–96% of online deepfakes were nonconsensual sexual imagery, highlighting the scale of this abuse. In May 2024, Google updated its policies to ban advertisements for platforms that create deepfake porn
