A San Francisco city attorney has sent cease and desist letters to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 AI face-swapping apps that can generate non-consensual nude images, according to CABLE.
The letters, sent Thursday, target eight apps on the App Store and five on the Play Store that pose as face-swapping tools but are used to “undress” photos of real people. The prosecutor’s office wants both companies to cut ties with developers and stop taking a cut of in-app payments, arguing that they are actually “aiding and abetting” the sale of explicit deepfake images. The lawyer called the practice “illegal, harmful and completely unacceptable” and estimates that Apple and Google collected millions of dollars in fees from the apps.
Both companies have implemented developer policies against pornography and have removed batches of nudify apps in the past after being flagged by researchers. A Google spokesperson said CABLE that the company removed “hundreds” of apps with harmful features for policy violations, including the five named in the letters. In June, it emerged that Apple had already tightened the language in its App Store guidelines on developer liability for pornographic content.
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