UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok
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The UK is implementing a law this week that criminalizes the creation of non-consensual intimate deepfake images, spurred by incidents involving the Grok AI chatbot. It will also be prioritized under the Online Safety Act.
The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC.
"The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create - or request the creation of - non-consensual intimate images," according to a statement from Liz Kendall, the UK's Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. "And today, I can announce to the House that this offence will be brought into force this week and that I will make it a priority offence in the Online Safety Act too." As a priority offens …