反极端主义组织「战略对话研究所」（ISD）发布报告指出，尽管主流社交媒体平台明文禁止传播未经同意的私密影像，YouTube 和 X 等平台却成为「裸化」应用程式的主要流量入口。研究发现，2025年12月至2026年3月间，社交网路为裸化网站带来超过570万次造访，其中YouTube贡献了182万次，占比超过三成；X则以130万次位居第二。这些平台上充斥著推广、评测裸化工具的影片与连结，实质上违反了自身禁止色情内容的政策。
报告揭示，裸化工具的使用门槛极低，部分应用仅需每张图片一美元即可生成不雅内容，但整个产业年收入估计高达3600万美元。常见受害者包括现任或前任女友，甚至姊妹、表亲等亲属。研究者还发现，使用者的动机并非全然出于色情目的，许多人将其作为报复手段，试图让他人丢失工作或毁坏声誉。2026年1月，X平台上的AI聊天机器人Grok被用来生成未经同意的裸露图像（包括未成年人），引发强烈谴责。
在法律层面，美国联邦《Take It Down法案》已于2026年5月全面生效，要求平台在接到受害者投诉后48小时内移除相关影像；明尼苏达州更成为首个明确禁止裸化应用程式的州。然而报告指出，这些立法并未有效遏制裸化工具的扩散，相关应用反而变得更加普及且易于使用。ISD呼吁采取涵盖线上线下、政策与教育的系统性协调应对措施，但全球已有超过90所学校出现深伪案例，显示问题仍在加剧。
A report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) reveals that mainstream social media platforms, despite having explicit policies against nonconsensual intimate imagery, are serving as major gateways to "nudify" apps and websites. Between December 2025 and March 2026, social networks drove over 5.7 million visits to nudify sites, with YouTube alone accounting for 1.82 million visits—more than 30 percent of all referrals—through videos that reviewed, promoted, and even provided promo codes for these tools. X ranked second with over 1.3 million visits, directly contradicting both platforms' stated content policies.
The report highlights that nudify tools are alarmingly cheap and profitable, with some charging as little as one dollar per image while the industry collectively generates an estimated 36 million dollars in annual revenue. Victims commonly include current and former partners as well as family members such as sisters and cousins. Researchers were struck by the finding that motivations often extend beyond sexual intent, with many users seeking to damage targets' careers and reputations. In January 2026, X faced intense backlash when its AI chatbot Grok was exploited to create nonconsensual nude images, including those of minors, prompting the company to restrict the feature to paid users.
On the legislative front, the US federal Take It Down Act, fully effective since May 2026, requires platforms to remove nonconsensual images within 48 hours of a takedown request, and Minnesota became the first state to specifically ban nudification apps. Despite these legal measures, the ISD report finds that nudify tools have only become more widespread and user-friendly. The organization calls for coordinated, system-wide responses encompassing platform regulation, policy interventions, and digital literacy education in schools. Yet with deepfake incidents reported in over 90 schools worldwide, the proliferation of these tools shows no sign of abating.