Some 32% of women worried over AI undressing apps used by thousands of Dutch men: Survey
While global controversy mounts about X’s AI feature Grok and the caretaker Dutch Cabinet debates what to do about artificial intelligence apps used to create nudes from regular photos, Netherlands residents are becoming increasingly familiar with these undressing apps. Roughly a third of women said they worried about their photos being altered to show them naked, RTL Nieuws found in a survey reported on Friday.
About 35 percent of male respondents said they know about these AI apps, and 1 percent admitted to using the apps. That would equate to around 70,000 adult men in the Netherlands using apps to undress others, almost exclusively women.
Among women, these apps are less of a thing - 18 percent of women said they know about them. Virtually none have used them.
At the same time, about 56 percent were not concerned about AI-altered images of themselves. Generally, they feel confident that their loved ones will know such images are fake, and they themselves know that the photos aren’t real.
RTL’s respondents were much more concerned about undressing apps being used to create child sex abuse content and other altered imagery depicting children. In 2024, the number of reports to the Dutch police about AI-generated child sex abuse images increased by a massive 86 percent, increasing from 82 to 153 reports.
“We do not distinguish between images of real children and AI-generated images,” Ben van Mierlo, the national coordinator of the Dutch police’s Child Pornography and Child Sex Tourism Team, said in February last year. “Not only because child pornography made with AI cannot always be distinguished from ‘real’ abuse images, but also because real abuse material is used to create child pornographic AI images. These images ‘help’ the AI tool to improve itself. In addition, it can actually facilitate sexual abuse.”
The Dutch police also reported a significant increase in online sex abuse reports in 2025. Last year, the police received 46 percent more reports of this crime than the year before.
AI-generated images likely played a role in this increase. Last year, the Dutch authorities launched a large-scale investigation into MrDeepFakes, a notorious deepfake porn platform with millions of visitors that was taken offline last year. Fake pornographic videos featuring dozens of well-known Dutch women were on this site. The Dutch police identified a 73-year-old Dutchman as the main distributor on this platform, saying he was responsible for the “lion’s share” of the images.
After global controversy about people using X’s AI feature Grok to create fake nude images, the social media platform promised to tighten its rules for Grok to make it impossible to undress people in regions where “this is illegal.” That should also apply to the Netherlands, where it is illegal to sexualize images without the consent of the person depicted. But according to NOS, several hours after X’s announcement, it was still easily possible to generate such images with Grok.
