Post by eSafety Commissioner

Three more AI-powered 'nudifying' services have withdrawn their services from Australia as regulatory pressure mounts over child safety concerns. Under Australia's Age-Restricted Material Codes, which cover all sections of the online ecosystem in Australia, AI services which allow users to access or generate age-restricted material, including sexually explicit material, must put in place appropriate age-assurance measures to prevent children under 18 from accessing their service or generating this material. Together with enforcement action taken by eSafety last month and late last year, this means that seven of the most-accessed nudify services in Australia, previously visited hundreds of thousands of times a month, have now either withdrawn access, or taken measures to comply with their obligations under the Online Safety Act. And we're keeping up the pressure: ➡ eSafety issued a direction to comply in early June to another nudify service. This company has also now committed to comply within the next three weeks. ➡ We're also looking at whether gatekeeper services, including app stores and search engines, are meeting their obligations under the codes in relation to nudifying apps and websites made available through their platforms. We'll continue to use all available regulatory powers to protect Australians and hold services like these to account.