Question follow-through · 26131
Social Media: Eating Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of whether measures used by developers of artificial intelligence systems to prevent harmful eating disorder-related outputs could be applied by social media
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of whether measures used by developers of artificial intelligence systems to prevent harmful eating disorder-related outputs could be applied by social media
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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15 Sept 2026
Answer published
Tackling eating-disorder content online is a priority for the Government, and we recognise the risks posed by AI systems generating content that could encourage or exacerbate eating disorders. Generative AI services in scope of the Online Safety Act are r...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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