X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

[Eric]

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

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Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are spineless cowards who are terrified of Elon Musk.

Here’s the relevant Apple App Store developer guideline: “Apps should not include content that is offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, in exceptionally poor taste, or just plain creepy.” Huh! How about that.

 

[tomO2013]

I could not agree more - this is spineless.

 

[dada_dave]

Good old Tim … Sweeney, equating free speech with platforms being asked to enforce their own policies on revenge porn and CSAM.



I guess his half a billion fine for violating children’s privacy and using dark patterns to get them to buy microtransactions was also government censorship.

Also not for nothing but this isn’t the case of a failed guard rail, but rather the guard rails being deliberately removed and the response of those in charge of them saying “lol, lmao” to those asking what happened.

Also there’s a deepfake nude ban sponsored by … Ted Cruz, which went into effect last May: