While the tech world obsesses over artificial general intelligence, a much darker AI trend is wreaking havoc on social media: non-consensual deepfake pornography. Despite X (formerly Twitter) rolling out features that facilitate the spread of generative AI images, platform policies from Apple and Google remain curiously static.
Major tech publications and advocacy groups are calling out Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai for perceived hypocrisy. Both companies maintain strict App Store guidelines that explicitly ban sexually explicit content and apps that promote harm. However, X continues to host verified accounts that generate and monetize non-consensual deepfakes of real women without meaningful consequence.
The argument is simple: if a smaller app utilized AI to generate illicit content, it would be banned immediately. By failing to enforce their own rules against a major platform, critics argue that Big Tech CEOs are prioritizing politics and engagement over user safety. Until Apple and Google treat X like any other developer, the deepfake crisis will only escalate.
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