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Artificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse Material

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to prevent the use of denudifying apps by children in the creation of pornographic deepfake images.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
8 Jan 2025
Answer
14 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to prevent the use of denudifying apps by children in the creation of pornographic deepfake images.

  2. 8 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Where an adult or a child uses generative AI to make sexual images of a child, that content is child sexual exploitation and abuse material, and is illegal.We are also bringing forward provisions to ban the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes images o...

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