Overview

• A judge approved Briver’s settlement, barring the New Mexico company from operating any AI nudification websites and imposing a $100,000 fine.
• The City Attorney’s Office has shut down 10 of the 16 websites named in the lawsuit for generating non-consensual explicit content.
• Richard Tang, developer of Deepnude, has invoked Section 230 protections and declined to cease operations, arguing the tool qualifies as protected speech.
• California’s recent law and the federal Take It Down Act increase penalties for non-consensual deepfake pornography and limit immunity under Section 230.
• The lawsuit cites hundreds of millions of visits to these sites and documents cases of bullying, harassment and sextortion targeting women and girls.