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

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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.