San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
San Francisco Attorney General David Chiu has demanded that Apple and Google remove 13 'nudification' apps from their stores. These AI-powered tools allow users to create non-consensual explicit imagery, which officials argue facilitates harassment and abuse.
Why it matters
The move highlights the growing legal and ethical pressure on major tech platforms to police AI-generated content that facilitates sexual violence and harassment.
“Horrific” San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
7 Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported.
Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The harmful AI tools allow bad actors to remove clothing, change a person’s features, place them in sexualized positions, and swap victims’ faces onto other people’s naked bodies.
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