Deepfakes of children: how the government can get to grips with them

Explicit AI child images are proliferating at a 'frightening' rate. ArtemisDiana

The UK government plans to crack down on explicit deepfakes, in which images or videos of people are blended with pornographic material using artificial intelligence (AI) to make it look like an authentic piece of content. While it is already an offence to share this kind of material, it’s not illegal to create it.

Where children are concerned, however, most of the changes being proposed don’t apply. It’s...