Australia's eSafety Commissioner has issued 47 formal removal notices to websites and app stores hosting nudification tools and deepfake pornographic images of schoolgirls, following complaints from families in New South Wales and Victoria. The notices, issued under the Online Safety Act's image-based abuse provisions, target both the platforms distributing the synthetic images and the operators of at least six AI nudification services marketed specifically for creating non-consensual intimate imagery. Commissioner Julie Inman Grant stated that several of the tools were being promoted on social media with tutorials explicitly encouraging users to target classmates, and that her office had referred 12 cases involving minors to the Australian Federal Police for potential criminal prosecution. The Commissioner warned that deepfake abuse is now the fastest-growing category of image-based abuse complaints her agency receives, with reports involving minors up 350 percent year-on-year.
Removal notices address material that has already been created, distributed and viewed; they do not prevent the initial contact or the psychological harm that accompanies it. Guardii's anti-CSAM and anti-sextortion detection intercepts AI-generated and deepfake abuse imagery in direct messages before it reaches the target, blocking the transmission in real time and surfacing the incident to a parent, school safeguarding lead or law enforcement as appropriate. By operating at the point of contact across platforms including Instagram, Snapchat, Discord and Roblox, the system enables rapid escalation to the right authority in an emergency and prevents a child from being confronted with synthetic abuse material that a takedown regime would only remove after the fact.
