Apple, Google host dozens of AI 'nudify' apps like Grok, report finds

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNBC

The Apple and Google Play app stores are hosting dozens of “nudify” apps that can take photos of people and use artificial intelligence to generate nude images of them, according to a report Tuesday from an industry watchdog.

A review of the two app stores conducted in January by Tech Transparency Project found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store, according to the organization’s report that was shared exclusively with CNBC.

After being contacted by TPP and CNBC last week, an Apple spokesperson on Monday said that the company removed 28 apps identified in the report. The iPhone maker said it also alerted developers of other apps that they risk removal from the Apple App Store if guideline violations aren’t addressed.

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A Google spokesperson told CNBC that the company suspended several apps referenced in the report for violating its app store’s policies, saying that it investigates when policy violations are reported. The company declined to say specifically how many apps it had removed, because its investigation into the apps identified by TTP was ongoing.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/apple-google-host-dozens-of-ai-nudify-apps-like-grok-report-finds.html

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Important report, and Apple and Google both deserve as much negative publicity as possible for this. There was no excuse for the apps being in the stores in the first place.

The watchdog group just had to do an easy search for words like "nudify" and "undress" to find all those apps, before testing them.

[malthaussen]

1. Interesting that such algorithms exist.

Somebody, or rather several somebodies, had to write the code to do this. Somebody, or rather several somebodies, had to think this was a good idea and order it done. I cannot imagine anything constructive that would come out of such an app.

-- Mal

[3825-87867]

2. Be a shame if...

relatives or families of ICE Agents, or employees of Apple or Google were used in those apps!

[highplainsdem]

3. It would be a shame. The people who created the apps, and whoever at Google or Apple allowed them

to appear in the app store, should pay for harm they caused. And ICE agents should be prosecuted for anything that they do that's illegal. But those apps shouldn't be used.

[SergeStorms]

4. How did we ever live without this technology?

Progress was good, for a while, but it's gone on far too long.
This is what unbridled "progress" has brought us. We're doomed as a species.