Santi(ago)
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former D.C. ANC Commissioner for 1B04 | local govt enthusiast | digital investigations | personal account
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Today on Indicator: 2025 has been a banner year for AI nudifiers. I found another 9,000 ads on Meta since my last report, bringing the total for this year to 25,000. The top 10 nudifying websites got 10 million views in October.
Nonconsensual nude generators had another banner year. What will it take to defeat them?
Deplatforming the companies, debilitating the technology, and deterring the users
indicator.media
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today on Indicator: 2025 has been a banner year for AI nudifiers. I found another 9,000 ads on Meta since my last report, bringing the total for this year to 25,000. The top 10 nudifying websites got 10 million views in October.
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Hey! It’s @indicator.media on the @economist.com. Crazy to see reporting by me and @santi4dc.bsky.social on the scale of the AI nudifier economy make it into the magazine.
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hey! It’s @indicator.media on the @economist.com. Crazy to see reporting by me and @santi4dc.bsky.social on the scale of the AI nudifier economy make it into the magazine.
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A councilmember who won his primary last year with 23.7% of the vote wants to delay implementing ranked choice voting. The at-large CM who won her last primary with 35.9% agrees that making her run for reelection next year under RCV would be a bad idea.
Felder continues to be critical of the election board's capacity to pull off ranked-choice voting in 2026.
"Before we roll out something of this magnitude I would think we need to do a needs assessment," he says to Evans. "You’ve been tasked with an arduous task. It’s unfair."
"Before we roll out something of this magnitude I would think we need to do a needs assessment," he says to Evans. "You’ve been tasked with an arduous task. It’s unfair."
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A councilmember who won his primary last year with 23.7% of the vote wants to delay implementing ranked choice voting. The at-large CM who won her last primary with 35.9% agrees that making her run for reelection next year under RCV would be a bad idea.
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More of this is needed. These sites are the direct and *intentional* facilitators of the creation of CSAM. California’s new law, AB621, will make this more possible.
In her complaint, the teen—who was granted anonymity as a 17-year-old minor—accused ClothOff of intentionally making it easy to generate and distribute child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), as well as nonconsensual intimate images.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear
Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims’ images.
arstechnica.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More of this is needed. These sites are the direct and *intentional* facilitators of the creation of CSAM. California’s new law, AB621, will make this more possible.
I’ve got a new piece out! DC’s bus shelter system has been broken for far too long and the District can now do something about it - but there’s still room to improve. Check out my latest in @ggwash.org
ggwash.org/view/101107/...
ggwash.org/view/101107/...
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve got a new piece out! DC’s bus shelter system has been broken for far too long and the District can now do something about it - but there’s still room to improve. Check out my latest in @ggwash.org
ggwash.org/view/101107/...
ggwash.org/view/101107/...
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NEVER show a NIMBY the reverse angle of this block
July 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
NEVER show a NIMBY the reverse angle of this block
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Thorough reporting on the #nudifier eco system by @indicator.media - @santi4dc.bsky.social. Updates figures on distribution, monetization and reach of multiple nudify apps and the scene overall. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...
AI Nudifiers continue to reach millions and make millions
We estimate that the nudifier economy is worth up to $36 million a year
indicator.media
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Thorough reporting on the #nudifier eco system by @indicator.media - @santi4dc.bsky.social. Updates figures on distribution, monetization and reach of multiple nudify apps and the scene overall. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...
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Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...
AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
www.wired.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...
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NEW: AI 'nudifiers'—one of the biggest generative AI scourges—are likely making millions from abusive images.
Analysis of 85 nudifiers from @indicator.media says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months
Analysis of 85 nudifiers from @indicator.media says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months
AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
www.wired.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: AI 'nudifiers'—one of the biggest generative AI scourges—are likely making millions from abusive images.
Analysis of 85 nudifiers from @indicator.media says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months
Analysis of 85 nudifiers from @indicator.media says they're averaging a combined 18.5 million visitors monthly and in the last six months may have made up to $18m in 6 months
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NEW with @santi4dc.bsky.social on @indicator.media:
We estimate that 18 AI nudifiers made between 2.6 and 18.4 million dollars over the six months to May 2025.
We believe this to be the first estimate of the overall turnover of these instruments of abuse.
Full 3,600 word report:
We estimate that 18 AI nudifiers made between 2.6 and 18.4 million dollars over the six months to May 2025.
We believe this to be the first estimate of the overall turnover of these instruments of abuse.
Full 3,600 word report:
AI Nudifiers continue to reach millions and make millions
We estimate that the nudifier economy is worth up to $36 million a year
indicator.media
July 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
NEW with @santi4dc.bsky.social on @indicator.media:
We estimate that 18 AI nudifiers made between 2.6 and 18.4 million dollars over the six months to May 2025.
We believe this to be the first estimate of the overall turnover of these instruments of abuse.
Full 3,600 word report:
We estimate that 18 AI nudifiers made between 2.6 and 18.4 million dollars over the six months to May 2025.
We believe this to be the first estimate of the overall turnover of these instruments of abuse.
Full 3,600 word report:
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Gonna do a thread of interesting court records. Whatever platform (Bluesky or Twitter) gets the most retweets in the next 15 minutes gets it. Posting this on both sites.
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Gonna do a thread of interesting court records. Whatever platform (Bluesky or Twitter) gets the most retweets in the next 15 minutes gets it. Posting this on both sites.
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/internationa...
Now available in English too (thank you for that)
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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/internationa...
Now available in English too (thank you for that)
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Some interesting news out of the DC Office of Risk Management budget hearing: Three agencies are implementing a pilot to add Intelligent Speed Assistance to their fleet vehicles (ORM, CFSA, and DFHV). This is a great move since ISA can prevent speeding both...
www.nhtsa.gov/book/counter...
www.nhtsa.gov/book/counter...
Intelligent Speed Assistance | NHTSA
A key premise of speed management is that drivers must at all times and locations know what the speed limit is in order to be able to obey that limit. With the complex task of driving and navigating i...
www.nhtsa.gov
June 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Some interesting news out of the DC Office of Risk Management budget hearing: Three agencies are implementing a pilot to add Intelligent Speed Assistance to their fleet vehicles (ORM, CFSA, and DFHV). This is a great move since ISA can prevent speeding both...
www.nhtsa.gov/book/counter...
www.nhtsa.gov/book/counter...
Briver's biggest nudify website "PornGen", most recently had around half a million unique visitors a month until it just went down. More than a drop in the bucket...
This is so awesome to see. Major shout out to the SF city attorney on this!
This explains why Clothoff was blocked in CA (and not other states, yet).
And Briver LLC has also agreed to pay $100,000 in civil penalties, which was responsible for a few deepfake sites.
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
This explains why Clothoff was blocked in CA (and not other states, yet).
And Briver LLC has also agreed to pay $100,000 in civil penalties, which was responsible for a few deepfake sites.
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Deepfake porn website operator settles with San Francisco, agrees to shut down
The San Francisco City Attorney's office has settled with a company that operated websites creating "deepfake nudes", where artificial intelligence is used to turn photos of children and adults into p...
www.cbsnews.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Briver's biggest nudify website "PornGen", most recently had around half a million unique visitors a month until it just went down. More than a drop in the bucket...
Anyone know what’s going on with the budget docs for the RFK campus infrastructure fund? The CFO’s site for the fund currently links to budget docs for the convention center fund instead.
Is it just not funded at all so there are no docs?
cfo.dc.gov/node/1783481
Is it just not funded at all so there are no docs?
cfo.dc.gov/node/1783481
2026 WC0 RFK Campus Infrastructure Fund
The RFK Campus Infrastructure Fund is a non-lapsing special fund that will pay certain costs, including debt service and payments related to bonds, for the development, construction, and renovation of...
cfo.dc.gov
June 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Anyone know what’s going on with the budget docs for the RFK campus infrastructure fund? The CFO’s site for the fund currently links to budget docs for the convention center fund instead.
Is it just not funded at all so there are no docs?
cfo.dc.gov/node/1783481
Is it just not funded at all so there are no docs?
cfo.dc.gov/node/1783481
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Complete street projects reduce crashes and injuries, increase bike riding and walking rates, has little overall impact on vehicles speeds. See data for three DC project here: before-after-evaluations.ddot.dc.gov
Before-After Project Evaluations
DDOT website sharing information about Before/After project evaluations.
before-after-evaluations.ddot.dc.gov
May 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Complete street projects reduce crashes and injuries, increase bike riding and walking rates, has little overall impact on vehicles speeds. See data for three DC project here: before-after-evaluations.ddot.dc.gov
If @wmata.com wants real bus rapid transit then I hope they can put up the money to help @ddotdc.bsky.social get it done. DDOT has some of the best bus priority planners in the country but the current bus priority budget doesn’t allow for true BRT.
Please consider this @wmatagm.bsky.social!
Please consider this @wmatagm.bsky.social!
DC’s Metro has effectively killed talk of expanding the rail system because of high construction costs. Getting bus lanes right & getting transit out of traffic is the only alternative.
May 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If @wmata.com wants real bus rapid transit then I hope they can put up the money to help @ddotdc.bsky.social get it done. DDOT has some of the best bus priority planners in the country but the current bus priority budget doesn’t allow for true BRT.
Please consider this @wmatagm.bsky.social!
Please consider this @wmatagm.bsky.social!
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Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
www.bellingcat.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
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This was an amazing surprise to see yesterday. Arguably, the most popular platform for deepfaked non-consensual pornographic videos is being shut down!
Good riddance, MrDeepFakes! Hopefully this will start a cascade of other sites being shut down?
Good riddance, MrDeepFakes! Hopefully this will start a cascade of other sites being shut down?
May 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This was an amazing surprise to see yesterday. Arguably, the most popular platform for deepfaked non-consensual pornographic videos is being shut down!
Good riddance, MrDeepFakes! Hopefully this will start a cascade of other sites being shut down?
Good riddance, MrDeepFakes! Hopefully this will start a cascade of other sites being shut down?
This part is really critical. Mr Deepfakes was a hub for abusers teaching each other and collaborating as well as one of the first places I observed advertising for nudify apps. Sadly this is too little too late but I’m glad to see it.
May 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This part is really critical. Mr Deepfakes was a hub for abusers teaching each other and collaborating as well as one of the first places I observed advertising for nudify apps. Sadly this is too little too late but I’m glad to see it.
So far in @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social's lawsuits against eight reckless drivers who owe hundreds of thousands in tickets - only three of the defendants have responded. They are kind of interesting - more below:
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Monday that the District of Columbia filed five lawsuits against drivers from Maryland and Virginia, who haven’t paid fines that total more than $400,000 between them.
DC Takes Maryland and Virginia Drivers to Court - Washingtonian
Eight drivers from each state are now accused of not paying fines for traffic violations.
www.washingtonian.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So far in @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social's lawsuits against eight reckless drivers who owe hundreds of thousands in tickets - only three of the defendants have responded. They are kind of interesting - more below:
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public food waste bin on new jersey ave se & near m street. there are 40 bins or drop off sites in the city. love this initiative.
how to use instructions and to locate a food waste site near you in dc: zerowaste.dc.gov/foodwastedro...
how to use instructions and to locate a food waste site near you in dc: zerowaste.dc.gov/foodwastedro...
April 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
public food waste bin on new jersey ave se & near m street. there are 40 bins or drop off sites in the city. love this initiative.
how to use instructions and to locate a food waste site near you in dc: zerowaste.dc.gov/foodwastedro...
how to use instructions and to locate a food waste site near you in dc: zerowaste.dc.gov/foodwastedro...
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RIP, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Pope Francis urged us to find grace, compassion, & love for all of God’s children.
His humility & focus on the poor & refugees in life & papacy was a counterweight in a world awash in anger, hate, fear, & inequality.
His humility & focus on the poor & refugees in life & papacy was a counterweight in a world awash in anger, hate, fear, & inequality.
Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88
After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing inclusion and care for the marginalized over doctrinal purity.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
RIP, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Pope Francis urged us to find grace, compassion, & love for all of God’s children.
His humility & focus on the poor & refugees in life & papacy was a counterweight in a world awash in anger, hate, fear, & inequality.
His humility & focus on the poor & refugees in life & papacy was a counterweight in a world awash in anger, hate, fear, & inequality.