Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians, according to Ars Technica. The reported promotion has drawn criticism because it appears to have allowed sexually explicit AI-generated content to be marketed through one of the world’s largest advertising platforms.
The most alarming detail in the report is that one ad featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a U.S. politician. That detail raises concerns not just about AI image abuse, but about the use of political likenesses in explicit synthetic media distributed through paid ads.
The episode adds to broader questions about how major platforms detect and block harmful AI-generated content, especially when ads appear to promote non-consensual sexual imagery. It also highlights the growing pressure on tech companies to enforce their own rules against abusive manipulated media before such material reaches users.