Apple Threatened to Remove Grok AI App Over Failure to Control Sexual Deepfakes
By
Robert Hart
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Apple threatened to remove Elon Musk's AI app Grok from its App Store in January due to the app's failure to control the spread of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X (formerly Twitter). Apple contacted both X and Grok developers after receiving complaints and seeing news coverage of the scandal, demanding they fix the problem or face removal. The threat was made privately despite public criticism of Apple's handling of the deepfake crisis.
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It was a muted show of force from one of tech's most powerful gatekeepers, made behind closed doors even as the undressing crisis unfolded in full public view
Apple told US senators it 'contacted the teams behind both X and Grok after it received complaints and saw news coverage of the scandal' and demanded that the developers fix the problem or face removal
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