UK makes use of AI tools to create child abuse material a crime

Published:  Sat 1 Feb 2025

Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images, it said on Saturday, becoming the first country in the world to introduce the new AI sexual abuse offences.

Possessing, taking, making, showing or distributing explicit images of children is a crime in England and Wales. The new offences target the use of AI tools to "nudeify" real-life images of children.

Read the full article at Reuters.

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