San Francisco's city attorney has demanded that Apple and Google remove AI nudify apps from their app stores.

NEW: San Francisco's city attorney has sent cease and desist letters to Apple and Google, telling them to stop hosting and profiting off apps that can 'nudify' people. "These companies have responsibility to ensure that apps on their platforms do not facilitate sexual abuse," David Chiu told me This follows researchers repeatedly finding apps, commonly face swapping apps, that can nudify people in the App Store and Google Play Store. Researchers say the companies are well aware of the problems and are not doing enough about the harmful apps Read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-apple-and-google-delete-ai-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/apple-google-must-stop-profiting-off-ai-nudify-apps-san-francisco-ag-says/ This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app store [...] Chiu said his office was “absolutely horrified” by how ubiquitous the nudifying technology has become, victimizing mostly women and children at an alarming scale as more tools became available.