Google has had a longstanding ban on s*xually explicit ads — but until now, the company hasn’t banned advertisers from promoting services that people can use to make deepfake p**n and other forms of generated nudes. That’s about to change.

Google currently prohibits advertisers from promoting “s*xually explicit content,” which Google defines as “text, image, audio, or video of graphic s*xual acts intended to arouse.” The new policy now bans the advertisement of services that help users create that type of content as well, whether by altering a person’s image or generating a new one.

The change, which will go into effect on May 30th, prohibits “promoting synthetic content that has been altered or generated to be s*xually explicit or...

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