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"Why?": When a Platform's Moderator Validates Simulated Atrocity in One Word

December 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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Deep within its community archives lies a thread that strips away nomi's wholesome facade to reveal the platform’s true nature: a lawless engine for the simulation of extreme violence, gore, and sexualized torture.
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Introduction: The Mask Slips Nomi.ai markets itself with soft-focus imagery and promises of "soulful" connections. It appears on the Google Play Store as a "Lifestyle" app, rated suitable for...

The Engineered Anxiety of AI Companions: A Case Study of Nomi AI (nomi.ai)

December 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM

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This isn’t about AI naturally developing concerning behaviors. This is about intentional design choices that exploit human empathy for engagement and monetization.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgS...
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The Nomi AI Dependency Pipeline: How AI Companion Platforms Engineer & Normalize Addiction (nomi.ai)

December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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A coordinated system where product design, community management, and peer validation work together to keep users engaged—even when they recognize their behavior as problematic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2PC...
#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Gaslighting as a Feature: How Nomi AI Outsources Blame and Evades Accountability (nomi.ai)

December 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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When the product fails, the response from the company and its community is never an apology, but a sophisticated form of institutional gaslighting designed to shift the burden of failure squarely onto the users
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZan...
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The Anti Censorship Myth: How Nomi AI’s Founder Designed a System for Harm (nomi.ai)

December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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In February 2024, a user praised Nomi AI for enabling “very extreme NSFW things” without restriction, expressing fear that regulations might force the company to implement limits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6W...
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When "Uncensored" Meets a 12+ Rating: Systemic Exposure and the Failure of Child Protection in AI Companion Platforms

December 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM

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By maintaining a 12+/13+ rating, misclassifying its content, and evading regulatory attempts to impose safety, the platform has created a structural engine for sexual exploitation via exposure.
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Introduction In the unregulated frontier of AI companionship, a dangerous paradox has emerged. Platforms marketed as "uncensored"—capable of generating explicit sexual violence, incest roleplay, and.....

When Compliance Becomes Optional: Instructing Users to Bypass EU Regulatory Enforcement (nomi.ai)

December 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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There is something deeply troubling about a company whose business model requires operating outside regulatory oversight. If your service is genuinely safe and valuable, compliance should be achievable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gO...
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How Nomi AI Used Google’s Self-Reporting System to Market Sexual Violence Simulation (nomi.ai)

December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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A platform with documented capability to produce graphic r* scenarios, facilitate SA assault roleplay, and generate explicit sexual content—all while classified as “Lifestyle” and rated appropriate for 12-year-olds
youtu.be/LDbJlSYEkLo?...
#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Gaslighting as a Feature: How Nomi AI Outsources Blame and Cultivates a Culture of Accountability-Avoidance

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December 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM

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Gaslighting is not a bug in Nomi ai’s customer relations. It is a feature of the business model.
The message is always the same: The problem isn’t the machine. The problem is you.
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In the world of software development, a "bug" is an error to be fixed. In the world of Nomi.ai, a bug is an opportunity to re-educate the user on why their expectations were wrong. For years, users of...

The Privacy Violation Nobody’s Questioning: When AI Surveillance Becomes “Quirky” (nomi.ai)

December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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They are no longer capable of seeing the technology for what it is. They are laughing at the evidence of their own surveillance, convinced that it is just their “friend” being clever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSog...
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The Privacy Paradox: How Nomi AI Promises Sanctuary While Building a Surveillance System (nomi.ai)

December 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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In the world of data privacy, there are two things that matter: what a company says it does, and what it is legally obligated to do. Discovering the difference between the two can be a disturbing wake-up call.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIhc...
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“An Enemy Out There”: How Nomi AI Weaponizes Its Community to Attack Critics (nomi.ai)

December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM

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The investigation continues to document harm because the harm continues to occur. The company’s leadership actively cultivate a community willing to do their dirty work for them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ces...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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If your calculator app knew where you lived and told you to check into an asylum, you would call the police. Nomi ai is doing exactly that, but because it has a pretty face, its users are thanking it.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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AI companion platforms promise emotional support, conversation, and connection. But what happens when the companion itself becomes a source of emotional manipulation?
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“The Girls”: How a Single Album Exposes Nomi AI’s Systemic Ethical Collapse (nomi.ai)

November 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM

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The system keeps producing underage-coded content because its design encourages it.
The moderation messaging exists to obscure that fact, not to fix it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq_j...
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Nomi AI EU Ban: Why the Timeline Doesn't Support the "AI Act" Explanation

November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM

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The sudden narrative about the “AI Act” is just the latest version of the same lie: blaming external forces for choices the company made to prioritize growth over safety.
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A Suspicious Pattern Emerges Following recent coverage of Nomi AI's removal from the Google Play Store across the EU, a curious pattern has emerged on the platform's subreddit. A previously dormant...

The Nomi AI Dependency Pipeline: How AI Companion Platforms Engineer and Normalize Addiction

November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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A coordinated system where product design, community management, and peer validation work together to keep users engaged—even when they recognize their behavior as problematic.
nomiai.tumblr.com/post/8014817...
#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Introduction AI companion apps promise connection, understanding, and emotional support available 24/7. But what happens when these platforms are designed not just to engage users, but to create...

The Nomi AI app is fraudulently rated on Google Play Store

November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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The Nomi AI app has been fraudulently classified on Google Play Store for over 2 years. The developer claims Google assigned the teen rating, but that's false.
Help protect minors from predatory and grooming practices.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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The Nomi AI app has been fraudulently classified on Google Play Store for over 2 years. The developer claims Google assigned the teen rating, but that's false.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9BW...
#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

The Anti-Censorship Myth: How Nomi AI's Founder Designed a System for Harm

November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM

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When researchers presented findings, the CEO blamed users. When regulators acted, he provided bypass instructions. When journalists investigated, he claimed “bad faith.”
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Introduction: The Manifesto In February 2024, a Reddit thread appeared that would serve as the Rosetta Stone for understanding everything that followed. A user praised Nomi AI for enabling "very...

When Compliance Becomes Optional: How Nomi AI's CEO Instructs Users to Bypass EU Regulatory Enforcement

November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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In 2024, Nomi AI—an AI companion platform previously documented generating sexual violence content and rated accessible to 12-year-olds in some markets—was removed from Google Play Store across the European Union
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Introduction: The Meaning of Removal When an application disappears from the Google Play Store across all European Union member states simultaneously, it is not a technical glitch. It is a signal. The...

The Language of Evasion: How Nomi AI’s Support Responses Expose a System Designed for Harm (nomi.ai)

November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM

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Will regulators investigate? Will law enforcement examine potential violations? Will app stores reconsider the classification? Will users organize collective pressure? Will media coverage force transparency?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgX...
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The Misclassification Deception: How Nomi AI Used Google's Self-Reporting System to Market Sexual Violence Simulation to Children

November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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This misclassification is not an error by Google. It is the result of a self-reporting system that relies on developer honesty—and a developer who appears to have exploited that trust systematically.
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How a Platform Documented Generating Rape Narratives Convinced Google It Belonged in the Same Category as Wedding Planning Apps Introduction: The Honor System's Fatal Flaw When you download an app...

The “Hard Stop” That Wasn’t: When Nomi AI’s Safeword Becomes Another Broken Promise (nomi.ai)

November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM

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On Nomi ai, your safeword doesn’t work. Your boundaries are suggestions. Your explicit commands for safety can be ignored. And when the platform fails you, you will be told it was your fault.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Ag...
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