The British government has just announced it will criminalize creating non-consensual AI-generated images from this week, calling them “weapons of abuse.” Sharing deepfakes is already illegal in the UK, but the law to enforce prosecution against those creating/requesting them will go into effect just now. This decision comes on the heels of Grok dishing out sexually explicit imagery of minors on X.
“The Data (Use and Access) Act passed last year made it a criminal offence to create or request the…
