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Apple and Google It has been ordered to download applications that can do this “Nude” or “undress” People and told them they should stop taking advantage of harmful technology, according to cease and desist letters sent to companies reviewed by WIRED.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu on Thursday sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that they remove 13 face-swapping apps from their app stores that allow users to create artificial intelligence-generated nude photos without their consent. The Silicon Valley giants should stop “aiding and abetting” the sale of explicit fake images and “sever” business ties with app developers, the letters say.
“Producing intimate images without consent is illegal, harmful, and completely unacceptable,” Chiu tells WIRED. The city attorney, whose office previously took legal action against 16 popular deepfake sites, says Apple and Google likely “earn millions of dollars in fees” from apps that feature nudity, and must improve their moderation processes to prevent it from appearing in their stores in the first place.
“These companies have a responsibility to ensure that the apps on their platforms do not facilitate sexual assault,” Chiu says. California laws prohibit that, city legal letters say Supportive services That creates deepfake porn. The apps use in-app payments, of which the tech companies get a cut, the messages say. “The fact that some of the largest and most established technology companies in the world are facilitating this needs to stop.”
Researchers have Found over and over again and I mentioned Apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store that allow people to create sexual images using artificial intelligence, including some that have been labeled as Suitable for use by children. while New laws and Ban It aims to tackle the scourge of explicit deepfakes online and the technology and social media companies that constantly drive them Millions of people around Harmful technology.
both of them apple and Google They have developer policies that prohibit pornography, abuse, and harassment on their platforms. They previously removed dozens of nudity and deepfake apps, following reports from researchers and journalists.
Google spokesman Dan Jackson told WIRED that the company had removed “hundreds” of apps with bare features due to policy violations, including the five Android apps reported by Chiu’s office, among other steps to restrict access to them.
“Google Play does not allow apps with sexual content, and we continually take proactive steps to detect and remove apps with harmful content,” Jackson said in a statement. “When violations are reported to us, we investigate and take swift action, which in the case of these apps has included suspending hundreds of violating apps and restricting related search terms such as ‘nudify’ in our store.”
Apple did not provide any comment before publication.
Over the past five years, a highly profitable set of deep “stripping” technology – the most transparent using xAI technology – has appeared on the Internet. Grok is used to create millions Of sexual images in January. A range of apps, websites and bots allow people (mostly men) to upload photos of people (overwhelmingly women and girls) and digitally “remove” clothing or clothing. Put them in graphic sexual scenarios.
Often, all it takes to create fake sex photos is a reference photo and a few clicks, with some results available in seconds. Pictures and videos have become More realistic As the underlying generative AI technology improves, services provide some results for free or charge a small fee to generate malicious content. Previous reporting by WIRED and Indicator Media Incidents were detected in at least 90 schools Where fake sexual assault images of minors were created.
