Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

"Grok is being used to create mass amounts of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM) - content that is both a criminal offense and in direct violation of Apple's App Review Guidelines. Because Grok is available on the Grok app and directly integrated into X, we call on Apple leadership to immediately remove access to both apps."

"The groups, which include women's advocacy group UltraViolet, the National Organization for Women, Women's March, MoveOn, and Friends of the Earth, sent an almost-identical letter to Google. The organizations decry the "mass spree of 'mass digitally undressing' women and minors" on X and said civil society groups have been sounding the alarm about Grok's potential for this kind of harm since it launched."

"X's decision to restrict Grok's image generation and editing to paid subscribers - a thin and ineffective means of stopping the undressings - "does nothing but monetize abusive NCII on X," they wrote, accusing Apple and Google of "not just enabling NCII and CSAM, but profiting off of it." The letters, part of a push to " Get Grok Gone," coincide with the launch of UltraViolet's Reclaim the Domain campaign, a broader fight against the nonconsensual creation and sharing of intimate images."

X hosts extensive nonconsensual sexual deepfakes and retains xAI's Grok across Apple and Google's app stores despite alleged policy violations. A coalition of 28 advocacy groups, including UltraViolet, the National Organization for Women, Women's March, MoveOn, and Friends of the Earth, sent near-identical open letters to Apple and Google urging removal. The coalition says Grok is being used to create mass amounts of NCII and CSAM and criticizes X's paywall restriction as an ineffective measure that monetizes abusive content. The campaign, called Get Grok Gone, coincides with UltraViolet's Reclaim the Domain effort to stop nonconsensual creation and distribution of intimate images.

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