Censorship minister Liz Kendall claims that a decision by X last week to restrict the Grok AI
deepfake tool to subscribers did not go far enough. She goes on:
Under the Online Safety Act, sharing intimate images without someone's consent, or threatening to share them, including images of people in their
underwear, is a criminal offence for individuals and for platforms.
My predecessor [Peter Kyle] rightly made this a priority offence, so services have to take proactive action to stop this content from appearing in the first
place.
The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create or request the creation of nonconsensual and intimate images.
And today I can announce to the house that this offence will be
brought into force this week, and that I will make it a priority offence in the Online Safety Act.
This means individuals are committing a criminal offence if they create or seek to create such content, including on X. And anyone
who does this should expect to face the full extent of the law.
