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For years, Apple and Google have positioned their app ecosystems as safe, carefully moderated digital marketplaces. Both companies routinely emphasize privacy, user trust, and platform integrity as foundational pillars of their brand identity. Yet new findings from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reveal a deeply troubling contradiction: dozens of artificial intelligence–powered “nudify” apps that generate non-consensual nude images of real people have been quietly thriving inside both the Apple App Store and Google Play. These applications, powered by rapidly advancing generative AI models, can take an ordinary photograph—often sourced from social media—and algorithmically transform it into a sexualized, explicit image … Read more