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Apple secretly threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfake nudes
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Apple warned that the AI chatbot Grok could be removed from the App Store because it is capable of producing sexualized deep-fake images. The company communicated this concern in a letter to U.S. senators, indicating that the potential for generating nude deepfakes was the basis for the threatened removal.
Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter
- TechMeme·In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (David Ingram/NBC News)
- The Verge·Grok’s sexual deepfakes almost got it banned from Apple’s App Store. Almost.
- The Next Web·Apple secretly threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfake nudes
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