The nonconsensual sharing of deepfake porn is to be outlawed in the UK after lawmakers amended an Online Safety Bill to include protections against victims of revenge porn and pornographic deepfakes.
The British Government said(Opens in a new window) the crackdown on the sharing of intimate imagery without content will contribute to “more perpetrators” facing prosecution and “time in jail.”
The amendment to the legislation which is currently going through the Houses of Parliament, will also explicitly outlaw “downblousing”, where photographs are taken down a woman’s top without their consent.
Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice, Dominic Raab, said: “We must do more to protect women and girls, from people who take or manipulate intimate photos in order to hound or humiliate them. Our changes will give police and prosecutors the powers they need to bring these cowards to justice and safeguard women and girls from such vile abuse.”
The Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, added: “I welcome these moves by the government which aim to make victims and survivors safer online, on the streets and in their own homes.”
According to official statistics quoted by the Ministry of Justice, around 1 in 14 adults in England and Wales have experienced a threat to share intimate images, and there have been more than 28,000 reports of disclosing private sexual images without consent between April 2015 and December 2021.
Earlier this week, the maker of the AI image generator Stable Diffusion updated its software to make it harder for the AI to make nude, pornographic, photorealistic pictures of celebrities, and images that mimic the work of specific artists, per a report(Opens in a new window) from The Verge.
Meanwhile, Intel has introduced what it claims is the world’s very first real-time deepfake detector. FakeCatcher is said to have a 96% accuracy rate and works by analyzing blood flow in video pixels using innovative photoplethysmography (PPG(Opens in a new window)).
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