Generating sexual images without consent is set to become illegal as the Government ramps up its response to AI chatbot Grok.
It comes as watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether social media platform X has breached UK law over reports that Grok had been used to create “undressed images”.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the criminal offence would be brought into force this week under the Data (Use and Access) Act passed by Parliament last year.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology did not specify which day it would come into effect.
Nudification apps will also be criminalised as part of the Crime and Policing Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, and it will become illegal for companies to supply tools to create non-consensual internet images, which Ms Kendall said would target the problem “at its source.”
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