A deepfake ‘x-ray vision’ app that algorithmically undressed photos of women was taken down by its creator last week. Users of the $50 DeepNude app could upload a photo of a clothed woman and an algorithm would impose realistic-looking breasts and vulva onto the image. In other words, this means that even someone who had […]
The UK government has said that the country will become the first to criminalize owning, making or distributing AI tools that are designed to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM). With British authorities cracking down on child abuse material following the rise of AI image generators and deepfake technology, the UK’s Home Office said that […]
The UK government is set to make creating non-consensual deepfake porn, and preparing technology elements to create such content, criminal offences. On January 7, 2025 the British Ministry of Justice announced that a new offence will be created as part of its Crime and Policing Bill, which will make taking intimate images without consent, and […]
The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
How should porn, sex and sextech-adjacent AI tools (and the content they can produce) be regulated? Should they be regulated by government and government-commissioned authorities at all? With the recent rise of AI-generated deepfake porn making news around the world, largely due to its nefarious use, these questions are also rising to the fore. Some […]
The US and UK governments are launching a joint online children’s safety working group, with the aims of protecting minors from —and cracking down on— internet platforms that potentially expose children to a raft of online harm. Details about how the joint working group will operate have not been revealed, but the UK government announced […]