Apple and Google ordered by San Francisco attorney to take action against 'nudify' apps - Engadget

Both companies were sent cease-and-desist letters regarding 13 apps on their respective stores. Apple and Google have been sent cease-and-desist letters that demand they remove AI-powered "nudify" apps from their respective app stores. As reported by Wired, San Francisco city attorney David Chiu ordered the two tech giants to take down a total of 13 apps that can be used to create AI-generated deepfake nude images. The letters appeal to Apple and Google to stop "aiding and abetting" the spread of nonconsensual intimate images, and ask them to stop working with the app developers in question. This isn't the first time Chiu has taken on deepfake platforms, having previously filed a lawsuit against 16 websites that allow users to turn images of real women and girls into pornography using AI. He told Wired that Apple and Google have likely made millions from in-app payments from the offending apps, and that their stores need better moderation to ensure they don't get approved. Despite widespread public outcry about deepfakes, it emerged earlier this year, via a report from The Tech Transparency Project (TTP), that nudification apps were frequently making it past Apple and Google's mode