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Apple Bans AI “Nudification” Deepfakes From App Store

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  • Apple updated App Store rules to ban AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images.
  • Developers must prevent, remove, and remediate AI-deepfake content or face app removal.
  • Apps adding “nudification” after approval are bait-and-switch, may be removed, and face distribution bans.
  • The change follows San Francisco’s removal of eight “nudify” apps and a Tech Transparency probe.
  • Apple warned xAI that Grok would be removed unless safeguards stopped deepfakes, then approved a revised version.