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What is undress AI? Guidance for parents and carers

What is 'undress AI'? Undress AI describes a type of tool that uses artificial intelligence to remove clothes of individuals in images. While how each app or website works might vary, all of them offer this similar service. Although the manipulated image isn’t actually showing the victim’s real nude body, it can imply this. Perpetrators who use undress AI tools might keep the images for themselves or might share them more widely. They could use this images for sexual coercion (sextortion), bullying/abuse or as a form of revenge porn. Children and young people face additional harm if someone ‘undresses’ them using this technology. A report from the Internet Watch Foundation found over 11,000 potentially criminal AI-generated images of children on one dark web forum dedicated to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). They assessed around 3,000 images as criminal. The IWF said that it also found “many examples of AI-generated images featuring known victims and famous children.” Gener...