The San Francisco City Attorney has sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google, asking them to remove 13 AI “face-swapping” apps that can generate non-consensual nude images. wired.
The letter, sent Thursday, targets eight apps on the App Store and five apps on the Play Store that advertise themselves as face-swapping tools but are used to “undress” photos of real people. The law firm is calling on both companies to sever ties with developers and stop their share of in-app payments, alleging that they are effectively “aiding and abetting” the sale of explicit deepfake images. The lawyer says this practice is “illegal, harmful and completely unacceptable” and believes Apple and Google are collecting millions of dollars in fees from the apps.
Both companies have developer rules against pornography and have previously removed a series of nudify apps after being warned by researchers. A Google spokesperson said: wired The company said it had removed “hundreds” of apps that had the ability to disable policy violations, including the five named in the letter. In June, it was revealed that Apple had already tightened the wording of its App Store guidelines regarding developer liability for pornographic content.
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