Artificial Intelligence is being touted as a tool to ease workloads and improve productivity, but it’s also being used in ways that are harmful and abusive, especially to women and girls.

Courtney Jones, a PhD student and researcher who specializes in AI-generated image-based sexual abuse, says its a pervasive problem.

Jones says many people may already be familiar with deepfakes that use known images and footage and superimpose another person’s face onto the image to lead someone to believe they’re doing something they never did.

AI nudification however, is different.

Jones says some apps and websites are using the technology and, the results are far-reaching and very harmful.

“There are these online apps and websites that allow somebody to offload a fully-clothed image of a woman – most of these apps have been trained on female bodies, so it only works on women,” says Jones. “You can upload a fully-clothed image of a woman, click a button and it will generate a nude, or sexual image of her.”

Jones says the most recent data she’s seen suggest that the top three to five websites are getting several million visits each month.