Democrats are asking Apple and Google to remove Bot X from their app stores

Apple and Google are being dragged in sensation About X’s chatbot that kept physically stripping women in photos without their consent this week.

In a letter “Generation X users have identified several instances in which Grok has undressed or sexually depicted minors in AI-generated images.

Senators point to app stores’ own policies for reason to remove app. Google’s terms of service state that apps are subject to removal if they fail to prevent users from “creating, uploading, or distributing content that facilitates the exploitation or abuse of children” or depicting children “in a manner that may lead to the sexual exploitation of children.” Apple only bans “offensive” or “scary” apps. Apple and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether X complied with their policies and whether they planned to remove the app.

Failing to remove X from app stores would demonstrate a double standard, undermining the companies’ arguments for having control over app stores in the first place, the lawmakers wrote. Both companies ICEBlock and Red Dot removed From their stores After government pressure. The apps have been used to anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “Contrary to Grok’s disgusting content creation, these apps were not creating or hosting harmful or illegal content, however, based on the administration’s claims that they pose a risk to immigration enforcers, you have removed them from your stores,” the senators wrote.

They also warned that inaction would “undermine your claims publicly and in court that your app stores provide a safer user experience than allowing users to download apps directly to their phones. This principle has been central to your advocacy against legislative reforms to increase App Store competition and your defenses against claims that your app stores abuse their market power through their payment systems.”