San Francisco tells Apple and Google to remove AI nudify apps

San Francisco’s City Attorney has demanded that Apple and Google remove AI “nudify” apps from their app stores, WIRED reports. The cease-and-desist letters accuse the companies of profiting from apps overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

The action matters because app stores are becoming enforcement points for AI abuse, not just distribution channels. Regulators are looking at whether platform operators should be responsible for allowing harmful AI tools to reach users.

The case adds to growing pressure around nonconsensual deepfake imagery, where legal, platform, and model-safety responses are converging.