Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
Ars Technica Vittoria Elliott, Matt Burgess
Meta ran ads for an app that seems to deepfake female politicians into porn. It’s another sign its ad checks still let sexual abuse tools slip through.
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Meta platforms recently ran ads for Kromix, an AI porn-generation app that appears to invite users to make deepfaked videos of female US politicians. That’s awkward on its own. It’s worse because Meta’s own ad rules ban sexual material, and this is not an isolated miss — it’s another example of the company failing to keep tools for nonconsensual intimate imagery off its services.
Kromix doesn’t exactly hide its pitch. The app calls itself an “AI image styler,” while a voice-over in one of the ads, seen by WIRED, boasts that it has “no restrictions,” says “all the characters are real people,” and calls it “the AI that men actually use.” That’s not subtle marketing; it’s a sales pitch for abuse dressed up as edgy tech.
One ad showed a woman who strongly resembled a prominent female US politician standing in front of a US flag and a flag of the president of the US, with the caption “What if she moved?” She winks, then the ad cuts to a pornographic scene featuring a woman with the same face. The message is clear enough even without the extra flourish: this is about turning real women into sexual content.
The app itself was available on Apple’s App Store before WIRED asked for comment. Kromix also invited paid users to upload photos for use in scenarios including “bedroom rape” and “Disney love,” and its videos included AI-generated pornographic clips of women in Spider-Man costumes. Requests for comment sent to the app’s listed contact went unanswered.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the part of AI that always gets hand-waved away as “edge cases” until it’s sitting in the ad system with a wink and a prompt. Meta keeps proving that moderation on sexual abuse is only serious when it’s easy. If a platform can’t catch “all the characters are real people,” then it’s not policing the market — it’s hosting the demo reel.
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