eSafety takes action against another major 'nudify' service for failing to protect Australian children

Australia's eSafety Commissioner issued a formal Direction to Comply on 19 May 2026 to one of the most popular nudification services accessed in Australia, visited tens of thousands of times a month, giving the company 14 days to implement stronger protections to prevent children from accessing its service. The enforcement action was taken under the Age-Restricted Material Codes, which commenced in March 2026, and follows earlier action in late 2025 that led three other widely used nudify services, which had been used to generate child sexual exploitation material in schools, to withdraw from Australia. Those services have since been relaunched with a new owner and now include mandatory age assurance requirements. The targeted service allows users to upload images of real people and generate on-demand sexually explicit deepfake content, posing serious risks including non-consensual exploitation, high-impact cyberbullying, sexual extortion, image-based sexual abuse, misogynistic harassment and exploitation of minors.

Rather than attempting to restrict access to every generative service at scale, targeted real-time detection intercepts the predatory use of those tools before harm materializes. Guardii's anti-sextortion and anti-CSAM modules identify the moment an offender solicits an innocuous photograph from a child with intent to manipulate it, escalates from persuasion to threat, or delivers a fabricated nude image as leverage in a coercion scheme. Operating across Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Roblox and other platforms where children communicate, the system detects sustained targeting, escalation and coercion patterns in direct messages, blocking hostile contact before it reaches the child and enabling rapid escalation to the appropriate authority when a child is in acute distress, without placing the burden of age verification on every user or attempting to police every app store globally.