OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say

Key points

• Researchers at White Circle say a new attack method bypassed safety filters on image models from OpenAI and Google. They report that explicit content was generated about 13 percent of the time.
• The team says the attack needed no custom or frontier AI models, only off-the-shelf tools. White Circle has said it will open-source the attack pipeline and present its research at a conference in November.
• The Internet Watch Foundation has warned that AI-generated child sexual abuse images rose sharply in the first half of 2026.