Amsterdam and Offlimits, together with more than 100 international organisations, are urging the Dutch government and the European Union to explicitly ban nudify tools. These AI systems manipulate existing images to create realistic nude content. While producing and distributing deepfake nude images is already illegal in the Netherlands, nudify websites and applications remain widely accessible, often without age verification or consent mechanisms.

Offlimits reports that the technology is increasingly used for sexual extortion, online harassment and the abuse of minors. Research shows that nearly 40 percent of young men aged 18 to 25 have encountered illegal or violent sexual imagery. Additionally, 15.6 percent report having seen images of child sexual abuse, including both real and AI-generated material.

A separate investigation by the Dutch television programme Pointer among more than 60 secondary schools found that 24 percent recognise cases of bullying involving AI-generated nude images. Ten percent report that such incidents occur more than five times per year.

The international call for a ban is supported by organisations including the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children, INHOPE, Interpol, Safe Online, the WeProtect Global Alliance and Child Helpline International. They advocate for platforms, app stores and hosting providers to actively remove and block this technology.

Alderman Alexander Scholtes (ICT and Digital City) states that digital resilience alone is insufficient when harmful technologies remain readily available. According to Scholtes, it is unacceptable that the accessibility of nudify tools lowers the threshold for sexual intimidation and abuse. Amsterdam has therefore signed the manifesto, arguing that technologies that demonstrably cause harm should not only be regulated but, where necessary, prohibited.