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Drumming up customers for deep fake tools is about to get a lot harder. Google – by far the largest company in the digital ads market – warned its Ad Manager users in an email last week that “synthetic sexually explicit content” will be banned from promotion under its new policy. Violations could lead to the suspension of the advertiser or publisher account. Other tech companies have been less willing to curtail this kind of advertising. In a recent sponsored video, “Sweetie Fox”, the most popular adult content creator on Pornhub, promoted an app that can generate nude images from pictures uploaded to it. The app in question, Clothoff, is already under fire after non-consensual nudes of minors were created and spread on it in Spain and New Jersey. It is named in the title of the “Fox” video, an onscreen graphic contains a promotional code for customers to use and the video itself has been viewed over two million times.