Jared Holt

This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

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This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

Your Periodic Pierre Update

Anti-Semites have agency so I don't want to let them off the hook but at the same time the groups that were supposed to enforce the cordon sanitaire blew their credibility on attacking a guy who went to more bar mitzvahs than most of us as an anti-Semite.

You want to throw a temper tantrum? Go off I guess, but you aren’t going to force me to care about it.

I decided a while back I didn’t want this site to feel like Twitter, so I decided early that I would just block assholes and keep it moving. Much better way to exist online.

This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

One of the internet's most active hubs producing sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight on 4chan, where users on a NSFW board have victimized countless women and girls. The problem is getting worse, and it seems no is trying to stop it.

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This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

Right-wing politicians spent the past three years using age-verification to block access to legal adult sites that a) ban deepfakes b) require consent and c) verify performer age.

All while pushing AV exemptions for right-aligned platforms like 4chan and X.

Yeah it’s all over the site but this board made sense for a focus as it’s basically dedicated to them at this point and users discuss making them in detail

This was a very hard piece to report out, but an important and urgent one. If you care about the safety of women and girls online, I hope you’ll read it and share it with others.

When I hear it’s dead I kindly remind people 4chan sees about half a million posts per day across its boards, and that’s been remarkably steady for years.

I searched and searched, struggling to find any prior reporting where someone hit this 4chan board head-on before. I hope this can fill in that gap, because a forum making this stuff that sees ~7k posts per day needs to be at front of mind as the world fights back against this kind of abuse.

I chose not to name them because I didn’t want to accidentally write a how-to guide. But it’s a mix of everything from defeating safeguards on big company’s tools (like Grok) and making LoRA models of open-source software to run on local hardware, out of view.

A chart shows the daily number of posts on 4chan’s “Adult Requests” imageboard recorded by Open Measures between Mar. 1, 2025, and Mar. 1, 2026. Daily activity on the imageboard nearly tripled over the analysis period we reviewed, peaking in January 2026.

Also... some reporters and researchers have been writing off 4chan as a dying website. That's so untrue it's absurd.

Daily activity on this single board, which is all but dedicated to nonconsensual deepfakes now, nearly TRIPLED over the past year.

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This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

Stay tuned -- we'll have the piece up shortly.

Some prior research pieces have sort of talked around this place, but what's happening there is disgusting -- potentially illegal -- and it deserves its own spot in the conversation around how to hold people accountable for this kind of online sex abuse.

If you were horrified by Grok making sexually explicit deepfakes of women and girls, you will want to read the research/reporting I have coming out later today. One of the most-active venues for that type of abuse is hiding in plain sight, and AFAIK my piece is the first to confront it head on.

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Panel one: what a senator said about AIPAC, which lobbied against holding countries receiving US military support to international law

Panel two: how ADL characterized and condemned his remarks

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

The Administration’s signature issue has been a colossal, violent failure and it looks like they’re gonna make Noem take the fall for it

AI ‘Deepfakes’ Weaponized to Spread Many False Epstein Files Claims - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

Conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein have been in circulation for what feels like ages. But advances in AI image generation tools have taken things to another level.

We looked at how AI images were used to promote fake claims on the back of the "Epstein Files"

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AI ‘Deepfakes’ Weaponized to Spread Many False Epstein Files Claims - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

The "Epstein Files" have generated immense public interest, making them a ripe subject for bad actors looking to push lies.

We examined how AI-generated images were used to supercharge viral false claims, inspiring offline activity and hostile state actors.
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… they bombed a school

Stop framing deepfake harassment of women as a social problem - It's a cybersecurity problem Non-consensual deepfake abuse of women is not just online harassment but cybercrime, demanding full threat intelligence and security action.

Smart piece from @megansquire.bsky.social arguing that the proliferation of AI “deepfake” nude images should not be thought of just as a social/cultural issue, but as a cybersecurity threat. The production of this stuff plugs into a world that’s often criminal.

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You cannot make billions dollars with hurting, exploiting, and crushing other people on the way there. If there's an ethical way to do it, we haven't seen it manifest yet. That level of personal wealth should viewed with fear, not admiration.

An article claiming US troops were told the Iran War is meant "to cause Armageddon" and usher in a return of Jesus Christ made waves on Bluesky yesterday. We saw at least 2,250 posts that repeated its core claims.

The story could be legit, but this article raises some reasons to be skeptical.