San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu has demanded that Apple and Google remove 13 AI-powered 'nudify' apps from their stores. The legal notice argues that these platforms are facilitating the creation of nonconsensual deepfake pornography and profiting from the associated transactions.
Why it matters
This highlights the growing legal pressure on major tech platforms to take responsibility for the content generated by third-party apps hosted on their ecosystems.
On Thursday, San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that they remove from their app stores 13 face-swapping apps, which allow users to create AI-generated nonconsensual nude images. The letters say the Silicon Valley giants should stop “aiding and abetting” the sale of explicit deepfake images and “sever” business relationships with the app developers.
“Generating non-consensual intimate images is illegal, harmful, and completely unacceptable,” Chiu tells WIRED. The city attorney, whose office previously took legal action against 16 popular deepfake websites, says Apple and Google have likely “made millions of dollars in fees” from apps that offer nudification, and they should improve their moderation processes to stop them appearing in their stores in the first place.
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