AI Fake Nude Images of Kids: How to Respond and Remove Them

If someone has made AI-generated fake nude images of your child, take a breath. This is a crime, and you have real options. Save the evidence, do not pay anyone, use Take It Down from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to request removal across major platforms, and report it to the FBI IC3 and local police. Below is the full playbook, in plain English, from the editors at Getshure.

First, what you are dealing with

"Deepfake nudes" are fake sexual images made by AI, often using an ordinary photo of your child's face pulled from social media, a yearbook, a sports roster or a class group chat. The body in the image is fake. The face is real. Under US federal law and most state laws, sexual images of minors are illegal even when the body is AI-generated. It is child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Your child is a victim of a crime.

You may also see a related scam called sextortion: a stranger (often posing as a teen) contacts your child, pressures or tricks them into sending a photo, or threatens to release a fake one unless the child pays, sends more images, or stays silent. If money is being demanded, read our guide on sextortion and teens after you finish this article.

The first hour: what to do right now

1. Stay calm with your child. They need to hear that this is not their fault, they are not in trouble, and you will handle it together. Kids who feel blamed often hide the next threat, which makes everything worse.
2. Do not pay anything. Paying a sextortion demand almost always leads to more demands. It does not get the image deleted.
3. Do not delete the evidence. You will want screenshots of the image (keep the file, do not forward or share it), the username that sent or posted it, the platform, the date and time, any messages, and any payment demands. Put them in one folder on one device.
4. Stop contact, but keep the account open. Block the sender on your child's account if they are harassing, but do not delete the account itself. Investigators will need it.
5. Write down a timeline. One page, bullet points: who, what, when, where it was posted or sent. Memory fades fast under stress.

How to get the images taken down

You have several removal tools. Use more than one. They cover different corners of the internet.

1. Take It Down (for images of a minor)

takeitdown.ncmec.org is a free service from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It creates a digital fingerprint (called a hash) of the image from your own device — the image itself never leaves your phone or computer. That hash is then shared with participating platforms (including major social networks) so they can detect and remove matching images. It works for real or AI-generated sexual images of anyone who was under 18 when the image was made.

2. CyberTipline (to report the crime)

File a report at report.cybertip.org. This is the national reporting line for child sexual exploitation. Reports go to NCMEC and are shared with law enforcement.

3. FBI IC3 and local police

File at ic3.gov and call your local police non-emergency line to open a case. If there is an immediate threat, call 911. Ask the officer for a case number — you will need it when you contact platforms, schools, and your bank if money changed hands.

4. Each platform's own report tool

Open the image or post, use the platform's "Report" option, and choose categories like "nudity involving a minor," "non-consensual intimate image," or "impersonation." Platforms are required to act quickly on CSAM reports. Keep the confirmation emails.

5. Google and Bing removal requests

If the images show up in search results, each major search engine has a removal request form for non-consensual intimate imagery and for sexual content involving minors. Search their help center for "remove non-consensual intimate images" from your own account and submit the URLs.

6. School and sports organizations

If the image is circulating among students, tell the principal and the school counselor the same day. Ask for a written plan: who they will talk to, when, and how they will protect your child from retaliation. Most states now have laws that cover AI-generated sexual images of minors; the school's resource officer can loop in the right people.

Find where the photos came from: Photo Guard in the Getshure app

Before you can stop the spread, it helps to know where your child's face is already online. Our protection plans include the Getshure app, and one of its features, Photo Guard, is a reverse-image search built for parents. You pick a clear photo of your child's face, and Photo Guard checks where that image (or close matches) appears across the public web.

Why this matters in a case like this:

• You can find old profile pictures, sports team pages, church directories, and tagged photos that an attacker may have scraped to build the fake image. Each one is a source you can ask to remove or set to private.
• You can spot fake profiles that reused your child's face on a dating site, a gaming forum, or a social account you did not know existed.
• You can keep a record of where your child's image surfaces over time, which is useful if you have to show a pattern to police or a school.

Photo Guard will not catch every copy — no tool can — but it is far faster than opening ten tabs and typing search queries by hand. Read more about what the app does in our guide to the Getshure app, or on Android install it from Google Play. On iPhone, use the download link in your Getshure order email after you choose a plan. Protection starts when you sign in with the same email you used on your order.

Talking to your child without making it worse

What you say in the first conversation sets the tone for whether your child tells you if something else happens. A few lines that help:

• "I am glad you told me. I am not angry at you."
• "Someone did something wrong to you. You did not do this."
• "We are going to handle this together. I will tell you each step."
• "You do not have to look at the image again. I will do that part."

Avoid grilling them about every detail in one sitting. Save that for a counselor or the officer who takes the report. If your child seems hopeless, withdrawn, or talks about not wanting to be here, call or text 988 (the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) and stay with them. This kind of harassment hits kids hard, and professional help in the first week makes a real difference.

If money was demanded or sent

Sextortion scammers often want gift cards, payment apps, or cryptocurrency. If your child already paid:

1. Call the bank, card issuer, or payment app and ask to reverse the charge and lock the account.
2. If gift cards were used, call the gift card company's fraud line (printed on the back of the card) and ask them to freeze the balance.
3. File reports at ic3.gov and reportfraud.ftc.gov.
4. Read our walkthrough: Just got scammed? What to do in the first 10 minutes.

Lock down your child's online footprint

Once the immediate fire is out, shrink the attack surface so this is harder to repeat.

• Set every social account to private. Remove followers your child does not know in person.
• Delete public profile photos from any platform that does not need one. Replace with a cartoon or initials.
• Turn off photo tagging and location sharing on posts.
• Ask relatives to take down photos that show your child's full face, school logo, or home.
• Review app permissions on your child's phone — our guide to app permissions walks through it.
• Set up two-factor authentication on every account the child uses.
• Walk through parental controls on iPhone and Android together, so your child sees this as safety, not punishment.

Read the book: "Keep Your Family Safe from AI"

If you want one plain-English resource you can keep on the shelf, our hardcover Keep Your Family Safe from AI ($29) is written for parents and grandparents. It covers deepfakes, AI chatbots that groom kids, voice cloning of family members, what to put in a family "safe word" plan, and exactly what to say to a child before and after something bad happens online. No jargon, no fear-mongering, no code. US shipping is free on orders of $40 or more, and there is a 30-day return window if it is not what you need. See our refund policy for details.

A simple family checklist

• Saved evidence in one folder (screenshots, usernames, timestamps).
• Submitted a hash on Take It Down.
• Filed a CyberTipline report.
• Filed an IC3 report and called local police.
• Reported the content on each platform where it appeared.
• Told the school in writing and got a response.
• Ran a Photo Guard reverse-image search to find the source photos.
• Set every account to private; removed public profile photos.
• Lined up a counselor or 988 if your child is struggling.
• Agreed on a family safe word for future suspicious messages.

Where Getshure fits

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You did not cause this, and you do not have to fix it alone. Start with Take It Down, file the reports, tell the school, and give your child a soft place to land. We are here when you need the next step.