Grok’s sexual deepfakes almost got it banned from Apple’s App Store. Almost. 

Apple softly threatened to footwear Elon Musk's AI app, Grok, from its App Store successful January implicit its nonaccomplishment to curb the surge of nonconsensual intersexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was a muted amusement of unit from 1 of tech's astir almighty gatekeepers, made down closed doors adjacent arsenic the undressing situation unfolded successful afloat nationalist view and criticism implicit Apple's cowardice mounted.

In a missive obtained by NBC News, Apple told US senators it "contacted the teams down some X and Grok aft it received complaints and saw quality sum of the scandal" and demanded that the developers "create a program to amended contented moderation." …

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