The Bishop of St Albans received the following written answers on 11th October 2024:
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government, following the finding in the Internet Matters report The new face of digital abuse: Children’s experiences of nude deepfakes, published on 22 October, that nearly half a million children have encountered AI deepfake nudes online, what plans they have to ban apps that create deepfake nudes.
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab, DSIT): Any child sexual abuse material, whether AI generated or not, is illegal in the UK. It is also illegal to share or threaten to share an AI-generated intimate image of an adult without consent. The government will take further action by delivering the manifesto commitment to ban the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes.
The Online Safety Act requires services in scope to proactively tackle child sexual abuse content and intimate image abuse content. The Act also requires services to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from encountering pornography. These requirements apply to AI-generated content.
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to protect creative industries from the unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI; and what assessment they have made of the risk this poses to the livelihoods of the people behind these works.
Lord Vallance of Balham (Lab, DSIT): The Government supports growth in both the creative industries and the AI sector, recognising the value of human-centred creativity.
This is a complex topic, and we want to take the time to hear stakeholder views and carefully consider the issues and their impacts – including the use of creative works to train generative AI.
The Minister for AI and Digital Government and the Minister for Creative Industries, Arts, and Tourism held roundtables with the creative and AI sectors in September.
DSIT and DCMS continue to engage with stakeholders to inform and develop our approach.
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