{"id":633076,"date":"2026-10-17T03:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633076\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:40:11","slug":"apples-updated-app-store-rules-go-after-nudify-ai-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633076\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s updated App Store rules go after \u2018nudify\u2019 AI apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple\u2019s App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called \u201cnudify\u201d apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">As part of updates <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=vvzx6cul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced Friday<\/a>, Apple says that developers \u201cmust proactively prevent and remove\u201d nonconsensual, sexual images as part of its content moderation requirements for App Store apps. Developers who \u201cfail to implement adequate safeguards\u201d or \u201cdon\u2019t remedy violations after notice\u201d may be removed from the App Store. Apple also clarified a rule that bars \u201cbait-and-switch\u201d apps, or apps that add or change features, including \u201cnudification,\u201d after they have been approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple\u2019s rules also more clearly spell out that any apps that \u201cfacilitate human trafficking or the exploitation of children\u201d will be pulled from the App Store and \u201cblocked from alternative distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called \u201cnudify\u201d apps that generate intimate images of people without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,351,363,364,111,43,139,69,370,145],"class_list":["post-633076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}