“No to Nudify”: NCMEC Joins Worldwide Call for Ban

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is joining more than 100 organizations worldwide to call for an immediate global ban on AI “nudifying” tools that are being used to exploit children. These AI-powered apps generate fake nude images from real photos and are increasingly being misused to create explicit images of minors. The rapid spread of this technology has opened a dangerous new pathway for exploitation, making it easier for offenders to harm children without ever even needing a real photograph. 

In a unified statement led by INHOPE, the coalition is calling on governments and legislators to urgently prohibit nudifying tools and ensure they are universally inaccessible. The statement also urges technology companies to ban these applications, strengthen safety measures and swiftly detect and remove nudified images of children from their platforms. It calls on the public to recognize the serious harm these tools cause and to refuse to tolerate their use, reinforcing that protecting children online requires collective action.

“Nudifying tools enable sexual abuse at the push of a button,” said Gavin Portnoy, vice president of communications and brand at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. “There is no responsible way to deploy them and no justification for allowing them to exist.”

Protecting children is a responsibility that we all share, and every child deserves a safe childhood. Read the full statement here: https://www.mentalhealtheurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/no-to-nudify-statement-eng.pdf.