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Artificial Intelligence: Disinformation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has plans to commission a domestic research strategy for (a) detecting, (b) preventing and (c) removing deepfake images created by generative artificial intelligence.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has plans to commission a domestic research strategy for (a) detecting, (b) preventing and (c) removing deepfake images created by generative artificial intelligence.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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21 Jan 2025
Answer published
AI-generated content is captured by the Online Safety Act where it constitutes illegal content or content harmful to children on an in-scope service. We will also criminalise the creation of non-consensual sexual deepfakes through the Crime and Policing B...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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