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A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily

AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious “nudify” app that has millions of visitors.

Spiegel Online

Context & Ripple Effects

Clothoff’s reported reach puts a named operator behind a market that had already shown rapid uptake: AI undressing services drew more than 24 million unique visitors across 34 providers in September 2023.

The whistleblower account matters because it describes a portfolio of services rather than a standalone app. Related coverage also found the broader sector depends on major technology services, creating enforcement points beyond individual consumer-facing sites.

First-order effects

  • The allegations concentrate attention on Clothoff and its reported network of 10 services, while the claimed daily output indicates the potential scale of non-consensual image generation affecting targets of the apps.
  • A network-level ownership claim gives investigators, platforms, and victims a clearer basis to examine whether ostensibly separate nudify brands share operators or operations.

Second-order effects

  • If the reported common ownership is substantiated, action against a single domain may be less effective because traffic and demand can move among sibling services; enforcement would need to identify shared control rather than only visible brands.
  • Technology providers used across the sector face greater pressure to detect and restrict services enabling this activity, especially after an analysis of 85 nudify sites found dependence on Big Tech services.

Third-order effects

  • The case reinforces an enforcement model centered on operator networks and shared infrastructure, rather than treating each new domain or app as an isolated product.
  • If this pattern persists, non-consensual AI-image harms will increasingly test whether platform policies and legal remedies can keep pace with low-friction replication across multiple brands.

The trend: Nudify services are evolving from isolated novelty apps into networked, commercially operated AI-content businesses whose scale makes infrastructure-level enforcement more consequential.

Discussion

  • @campuscodi.risky.biz Catalin Cimpanu on bluesky
    The Clothoff AI nudify app left a database exposed online that leaked the identities of its four founders, men from Russia and Ukraine, and a man and woman from Belarus  —  www.spiegel.de/internationa...
  • @santi4dc @santi4dc on bluesky
    Excellent read on the network behind “ClothOff” and how nudify apps are more and more operating as scaled businesses (even buying out their competitors).  Scaled business = scaled image based sexual abuse.  —  Now available in English too (thank you for that)  —  www.spiegel.de/i…
  • r/technology r on reddit
    Nudify app's plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show |  Report: Clothoff ignored California's lawsuit while buying up 10 rivals.
  • r/technology r on reddit
    The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography |  AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious “nudify” app that has millions of visitors. …