
Apple’s App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called « nudify » apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools.
The rule changes follow significant criticism toward Apple after X users used Grok earlier this year to make nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, including minors. Apple didn’t pull X or Grok from the App Store, though it told senators that it threatened to yank Grok. At Apple’s WWDC event in June, protestors also called on Apple to « remove Grok, X, and all nudify technology from the App Store, » and in July, a San Francisco city attorney ordered Apple to remove 13 « nudify » apps, which it said …