#uk-legislation

#uk-legislation

The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images. Speaking to the Commons, Kendall said AI-generated pictures of women and children in states of undress, created without a person's consent, were not "harmless images" but "weapons of abuse".

We'll get this right but we also require the regulator to provide us with the information we need as a government to consider all that together: the code of practice, together with other material. A bit more focus on that and a little less focus on public debate would be helpful.

The government legislation allowing foreign states to own up to 15% in British newspapers survived a potentially fatal vote in the House of Lords, ensuring RedBird Capital's purchase of the Telegraph can proceed.

Such technologies, however cleverly sold, will always need to be built on existing, flawed police data, or data from other flawed and biased public and private sources.