New App Store Rules Target AI Deepfakes and Nudify Apps

Apple today expanded its App Store moderation rules to screen AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery. Sexually explicit contented was already banned, but present Apple says app developers indispensable proactively forestall and region AI-generated deepfakes from their platforms. Apple warns that apps with offending contented could beryllium removed from the ‌App Store‌ if developers neglect to act.


The updated 1.2 regularisation names AI contented instauration apps and could beryllium targeting apps similar Grok, among others. Users person complained astir xAI's Grok chatbot being utilized for nude and sexualized deepfakes, and earlier this year, Apple told xAI it would remove Grok from the ‌App Store‌ if it continued to licence nude deepfakes. xAI enactment safeguards successful place, and Apple approved an updated mentation of the app.

Apple besides added line 2.5.19 to clarify that developers who adhd features oregon functionality not contiguous successful the mentation of an app submitted for reappraisal hazard removal from the ‌App Store‌ and Apple Developer Program. Apple links the regularisation to "nudification" apps that make sexually explicit images of existent individuals without their consent, suggesting immoderate of the apps person concealed their existent intent during reappraisal and added the nudify diagnostic aft approval.
Apps containing hidden oregon undocumented features are besides prohibited connected the App Store, including apps that misrepresent their intent during reappraisal and lone uncover harmful capabilities — specified arsenic "nudification" — aft approval, a maneuver commonly known arsenic bait-and-switch.
Along with changes focused connected AI-generated content, Apple updated conception 5 to widen its prohibition connected apps that facilitate quality trafficking oregon kid exploitation to alternate app distribution.

"We bash not hesitate to region apps, and terminate the developers down them, erstwhile they interruption these guidelines," reads Apple's developer quality station connected the regularisation changes.

Apple's afloat updated guidelines can beryllium recovered connected its website.
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