An AI app that creates porn videos has appeared on the App Store
(Dan Tri) - Many AI applications that allow creating pornographic videos from anyone's images have suddenly appeared on the App Store for iPhone.
Apple is famous for its strict censorship of applications before allowing them to appear on the App Store for iPhone, which helps prevent applications that violate policies as well as applications that contain malicious code.
Singer Taylor Swift once became a victim of AI when her face was spliced into fake porn videos (Illustration: Getty).
However, The Independent newspaper discovered a series of applications on the App Store that use artificial intelligence to turn any person's portrait into pornographic videos, even creating videos of rape or sexual assault, with a very high level of realism.
The Independent said these applications list dozens of scenarios for AI to create pornographic content from images provided by users. The applications allow users to create some content for free before charging a fee.
Notably, these applications do not only appear on the App Store. Technology site Wired also discovered a number of pornographic content creation applications running ads on Meta's social networking platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. This means that these applications have also passed Meta's advertising content censorship step.
Apple removed apps that created porn using AI after receiving a report from The Independent, saying the apps that created porn violated the company's policies.
"'Nudity' applications violate company policies. We have proactively rejected and removed many of these applications, including those reported by users," an Apple representative said.
The App Store policy states that apps cannot include “content that is offensive, insensitive, distressing, or intentionally disgusting or simply scary.” However, Apple did not explain why AI apps that create pornographic content bypass the company's censorship to appear on the App Store.
The Independent said it was estimated that there were millions of downloads of these applications before Apple removed them from the App Store. This means that a lot of fake porn has been created, and anyone can fall victim to it.
In fact, using AI to create pornographic content is not new. But now, these AI tools are "packaged" into mobile applications, with much easier usage, causing many concerns that AI will be exploited to create fake pornographic content to blackmail or degrade the victim's reputation.
Many famous figures, from singers, actors to politicians, have become victims of fake porn videos created by AI. Many countries are strengthening measures to suppress and prevent pornographic images and videos created by AI.
Even in Vietnam, many people have become victims when their faces were spliced into fake pornographic images and videos created by AI, then bad guys used this content to blackmail or insult the victim's honor.