Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says AI is 'putting child abuse on steroids' as she talks about how it is being used to manipulate images of children and how the law could be 'strengthed' to help combat the issue.
Yvette Cooper has announced the UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own AI tools designed to generate images of child sexual abuse.Those who have been found to own AI 'paedophile manuals' could be jailed for up to three years, under measures the Government will bring forward in the Crime and Policing Bill.
'This Government will not hesitate to act to ensure the safety of children online by ensuring our laws keep pace with the latest threats.' The Bill will also introduce a specific offence for paedophiles who run websites to share child sex abuse, which could carry a 10-year prison sentence. The law reforms come after warnings by the Internet Watch Foundation that sexual abuse images of children are increasingly being created.
The law reforms come after warnings by the Internet Watch Foundation that sexual abuse images of children are increasingly being created
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