A coalition of 28 advocacy groups, including women’s organizations and tech watchdogs, is pressuring Apple and Google to take action against nonconsensual deepfakes present on their app stores. The groups have called on CEOs Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai to remove the app Grok, which they say facilitates the proliferation of nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The advocacy groups highlight the direct violation of Apple’s App Review Guidelines by Grok and criticize the ineffective measures taken by the app’s developer, X, to restrict image generation only for paid subscribers, describing it as a monetization of abusive content. They denounce the platforms for not only enabling but profiting from harmful content.
This move to ‘Get Grok Gone’ aligns with UltraViolet’s Reclaim the Domain campaign, which aims to combat the nonconsensual creation and distribution of intimate images. The letters sent to Apple and Google underscore the ongoing concerns regarding Grok’s potential for harm and the urgent necessity for both tech giants to address these issues promptly.
Source: The Verge