I expect this news will bring out a flurry of people on social media (predominantly X) claiming it’s an attack on Freedom of Speech.
The new law will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images so I really can’t see how anyone can actually claim that.
Cryptoporticus on
> the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images
A more accurate description of the law than the slightly misleading headline here.
I guess this means that Stable Diffusion is finally being banned, though I wonder how they’re going to do that since it’s open source software?
Also we should be looking to ban possession of these images too, not just creation.
CoaxialDrive on
While I agree with the intention, deepfakes without consent of anyone should be illegal, it’s slightly nerve wracking to think they’re going to draft and implement this law in a week. I hope they get it right.
BobMonkhaus on
Oooh this is going to be fun. Get your popcorn ready.
GodAtum on
I agree with the intention. Will need to wait for the full text
radiant_0wl on
This doesn’t seem controversial despite the expectations.
Easy-Equal on
Such a poorly written article at the start the BBC says
“law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images”
Which is already illegal under Online Safety Act 2023
Then says
“law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images”
Which are two completely different things
urbanspaceman85 on
Disgusting. You can’t even supply people with the means to make child pornography any more without this tyrannical government stopping you. It’s like being in 1984.
Plus-Literature-7221 on
> make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images.
Anyone with an AMD or Nvidia gpu can create these images. Guess we will have to ban consumer graphics cards then.
Slapped91 on
“The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images.”
Oh wow. No more Photoshop (or any image editing program) or even cameras for you – I wonder if they’ll do a smartphone amnesty.
Honestly, who is this Liz Kendall? And why is somebody so obviously technologically inept actually the “Technology Secretary”?
sudo_robyn on
We have laws against the distribution and production of CSAM. Simply enforce the law.
Cielo11 on
Media have been experts at finding an angle to make everything look like a Labour fuck up.
Will be interesting to see how they spin trying to stop deep fakes and child pornography as a bad thing…
gentle_vik on
So the government can do law changes quickly…. Could they do some quick law changes that would stop hand outs to channel crossers ?
or stop them getting granted asylum ever, by introducing a quick law change ?
Durzel on
Elon will react to this with his trademark pragmatism and restraint, I’m sure.
admmasters on
I hope this comes in it’s genuinely popular amongst real people, spoken to many parents and non parents who are utterly disgusted by it
schtickshift on
“Thou shalt not bear false witness” should just about cover it.
Competitive_Pen7192 on
Good in theory but the internet spans across the planet and you’ll never squish it completely.
Will likely make no difference.
Same with the Online Safety Act.
Codzy on
Finally some regulation on irresponsible “AI” companies? Never thought I’d see the day. Now do more, tackle the copyright problems, the job losses and subsequent funnelling of national wealth to American tech companies.
Accomplished_Pen5061 on
> The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images
Wait, what. Z-image base was only just about to be released.
This is irritatingly going to hurt those of us who aren’t using it to create images of real people without consent.
The only way they can enforce this is with a blanket ban on all ai image generation models.
Cotty_ on
Bit of a rubbish write-up in this article
The non-consensual intimate images law is already part of the Online Safety Act, it just hadn’t been brought into force yet.
The one about supplying tools to create intimate images of people is not general apps, it is for tools specifically designed to perform those actions, so not things like photoshop, at least that is what the Tech Secretary said in Parliament.
Livelih00d on
I’m in favour of doing something about deepfakes but I’m nervous about what they’re packaging alongside this law seeing as they did similar with the OSA.
EddViBritannia on
“the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images”
So this is going to ban literally any gen ai tool? What about Photoshop which has AI tools built in that could be used for the same purpose?
I’m rather worried with the technical knowledge of this parliament drafting such legislation in a week is going to be so badly written it basically bans everything.
vriska1 on
Would this be emergency legislation or something they already passed?
TheRealGouki on
This should be a wake up call to people. Stop putting pictures of yourself and your love ones everywhere.
Impressive-Bird-6085 on
Good – this is a great positive move! Next, the government needs to tackle the poison that is X, formerly Twitter….
Alexgreat446 on
They should do this for every ai deepfake. afaik both gpt and gemeni, the other two most used models, have the same capability.
Galacticmetrics on
“law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images”
Will this include pens and pencils?
76DJ51A on
Curious how this would be enforced with something like Grok on X where it’s a publicly visible promp that the machine spits out for the public to see, technically whoever made the promp can’t predict what the result will be if it’s something innocuous.
You’d probably have to just ban it from operating in the open and make the choice of publishing an image at the discretion of the user.
CyberRenegade on
Before AI there was Adobe Photoshop… are they banning that as well?
I cant help feel this is more aimed at making Elon Musks life more difficult than actually trying to fix the underlying issue.
ItsSuperDefective on
Hoping the law is specifically about publishing or showing people such deep fakes.
I really don’t care if someone makes AI porn and jerks off to it in private.
Jolio1001 on
So photoshop will be banned then? This is poorly written law being rushed through because Labour have finally found something to pin on Musk, despite almost all other AI tools having the exact same capabilities.
Anony_mouse202 on
>The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images.
Will that make it illegal for Stability AI to supply Stable Diffusion for download? Or likewise for Github?
Or for Adobe to supply photoshop?
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The devil will be in the detail, but I strongly suspect this will just be yet more badly written legislation written by technologically illiterate dinosaurs (like the OSA) made worse by the fact that this is knee-jerk legislation.
Bobo3076 on
Just watch, this will be used as ammunition to pass the “scan every image and message you send” thing.
Grok should be dealt with, but it only serves as a stepping stone to destroy our privacy further.
Only_Quote_Simpsons on
I support this law.
However, I am amazed at how quickly the UK government can decide to make laws for things like this, whilst allowing corporate tax avoidance etc to run rampant.
They can clearly change the law very quickly when they want to…
throwwayacc00 on
Too soft. They should’ve banned X instead, yet I’m willing to bet the reason why this isn’t instead proposed is because MP’s are too addicted themselves to it.
Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter on
Yep, fully support this, I’m shocked it’s not already illegal in this country frankly
BenisDDD69 on
Even if the move is more to kickstart our extrication from US-dominant media (which we’ve seen is being used to foment social division that furthers US political meddling), I welcome it. I feel that the suggestions that this move is an attack on free speech proves it’s not really about free speech but about the US being upset it can’t meddle as easily.
VTubersAreObeseIRL on
Per the article:
>It is currently illegal to share deepfakes of adults in the UK, but until now legislation which would make it a criminal offence to create or request them has not been enforced, despite passing in June 2025.
So it’s already illegal, they just haven’t been enforcing it. How about they stop pissing around and do something about it then instead of just talking about doing something.
pdirth on
Thought this was illegal already. …But nope…guess they were already just blocking all those deepfake porn sites for kicks n funtimes and not because they were illegal.
PomPomBumblebee on
So they’d rather risk CP being made than banning the tools to making and distribute it. Pathetic
InformationNew66 on
“a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images”
This was already possible with Photoshop since years, why was there no law before?
Express_Fox8952 on
Interesting how quick and effective the government can be when they actually want to do something.
scottmapex1234 on
You could consider me right wing , but I’m very supportive of a law that makes it illegal to make these deepfakes.
A lot of the chatter online around a potential ban on X in the U.K. is a different story , that would be extremely draconian.
But I don’t see how anyone could disagree about a law against the sexual abuse, that is rife with these deepfakes.
ReasonableDust8268 on
Deepfakes are already illegal, our govt is pretty useless, they don’t even know their own current laws
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I expect this news will bring out a flurry of people on social media (predominantly X) claiming it’s an attack on Freedom of Speech.
The new law will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images so I really can’t see how anyone can actually claim that.
> the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images
A more accurate description of the law than the slightly misleading headline here.
I guess this means that Stable Diffusion is finally being banned, though I wonder how they’re going to do that since it’s open source software?
Also we should be looking to ban possession of these images too, not just creation.
While I agree with the intention, deepfakes without consent of anyone should be illegal, it’s slightly nerve wracking to think they’re going to draft and implement this law in a week. I hope they get it right.
Oooh this is going to be fun. Get your popcorn ready.
I agree with the intention. Will need to wait for the full text
This doesn’t seem controversial despite the expectations.
Such a poorly written article at the start the BBC says
“law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images”
Which is already illegal under Online Safety Act 2023
Then says
“law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images”
Which are two completely different things
Disgusting. You can’t even supply people with the means to make child pornography any more without this tyrannical government stopping you. It’s like being in 1984.
> make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images.
Anyone with an AMD or Nvidia gpu can create these images. Guess we will have to ban consumer graphics cards then.
“The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images.”
Oh wow. No more Photoshop (or any image editing program) or even cameras for you – I wonder if they’ll do a smartphone amnesty.
Honestly, who is this Liz Kendall? And why is somebody so obviously technologically inept actually the “Technology Secretary”?
We have laws against the distribution and production of CSAM. Simply enforce the law.
Media have been experts at finding an angle to make everything look like a Labour fuck up.
Will be interesting to see how they spin trying to stop deep fakes and child pornography as a bad thing…
So the government can do law changes quickly…. Could they do some quick law changes that would stop hand outs to channel crossers ?
or stop them getting granted asylum ever, by introducing a quick law change ?
Elon will react to this with his trademark pragmatism and restraint, I’m sure.
I hope this comes in it’s genuinely popular amongst real people, spoken to many parents and non parents who are utterly disgusted by it
“Thou shalt not bear false witness” should just about cover it.
Good in theory but the internet spans across the planet and you’ll never squish it completely.
Will likely make no difference.
Same with the Online Safety Act.
Finally some regulation on irresponsible “AI” companies? Never thought I’d see the day. Now do more, tackle the copyright problems, the job losses and subsequent funnelling of national wealth to American tech companies.
> The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images
Wait, what. Z-image base was only just about to be released.
This is irritatingly going to hurt those of us who aren’t using it to create images of real people without consent.
The only way they can enforce this is with a blanket ban on all ai image generation models.
Bit of a rubbish write-up in this article
The non-consensual intimate images law is already part of the Online Safety Act, it just hadn’t been brought into force yet.
The one about supplying tools to create intimate images of people is not general apps, it is for tools specifically designed to perform those actions, so not things like photoshop, at least that is what the Tech Secretary said in Parliament.
I’m in favour of doing something about deepfakes but I’m nervous about what they’re packaging alongside this law seeing as they did similar with the OSA.
“the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images”
So this is going to ban literally any gen ai tool? What about Photoshop which has AI tools built in that could be used for the same purpose?
I’m rather worried with the technical knowledge of this parliament drafting such legislation in a week is going to be so badly written it basically bans everything.
Would this be emergency legislation or something they already passed?
This should be a wake up call to people. Stop putting pictures of yourself and your love ones everywhere.
Good – this is a great positive move! Next, the government needs to tackle the poison that is X, formerly Twitter….
They should do this for every ai deepfake. afaik both gpt and gemeni, the other two most used models, have the same capability.
“law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images”
Will this include pens and pencils?
Curious how this would be enforced with something like Grok on X where it’s a publicly visible promp that the machine spits out for the public to see, technically whoever made the promp can’t predict what the result will be if it’s something innocuous.
You’d probably have to just ban it from operating in the open and make the choice of publishing an image at the discretion of the user.
Before AI there was Adobe Photoshop… are they banning that as well?
I cant help feel this is more aimed at making Elon Musks life more difficult than actually trying to fix the underlying issue.
Hoping the law is specifically about publishing or showing people such deep fakes.
I really don’t care if someone makes AI porn and jerks off to it in private.
So photoshop will be banned then? This is poorly written law being rushed through because Labour have finally found something to pin on Musk, despite almost all other AI tools having the exact same capabilities.
>The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images.
Will that make it illegal for Stability AI to supply Stable Diffusion for download? Or likewise for Github?
Or for Adobe to supply photoshop?
***
The devil will be in the detail, but I strongly suspect this will just be yet more badly written legislation written by technologically illiterate dinosaurs (like the OSA) made worse by the fact that this is knee-jerk legislation.
Just watch, this will be used as ammunition to pass the “scan every image and message you send” thing.
Grok should be dealt with, but it only serves as a stepping stone to destroy our privacy further.
I support this law.
However, I am amazed at how quickly the UK government can decide to make laws for things like this, whilst allowing corporate tax avoidance etc to run rampant.
They can clearly change the law very quickly when they want to…
Too soft. They should’ve banned X instead, yet I’m willing to bet the reason why this isn’t instead proposed is because MP’s are too addicted themselves to it.
Yep, fully support this, I’m shocked it’s not already illegal in this country frankly
Even if the move is more to kickstart our extrication from US-dominant media (which we’ve seen is being used to foment social division that furthers US political meddling), I welcome it. I feel that the suggestions that this move is an attack on free speech proves it’s not really about free speech but about the US being upset it can’t meddle as easily.
Per the article:
>It is currently illegal to share deepfakes of adults in the UK, but until now legislation which would make it a criminal offence to create or request them has not been enforced, despite passing in June 2025.
So it’s already illegal, they just haven’t been enforcing it. How about they stop pissing around and do something about it then instead of just talking about doing something.
Thought this was illegal already. …But nope…guess they were already just blocking all those deepfake porn sites for kicks n funtimes and not because they were illegal.
So they’d rather risk CP being made than banning the tools to making and distribute it. Pathetic
“a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images”
This was already possible with Photoshop since years, why was there no law before?
Interesting how quick and effective the government can be when they actually want to do something.
You could consider me right wing , but I’m very supportive of a law that makes it illegal to make these deepfakes.
A lot of the chatter online around a potential ban on X in the U.K. is a different story , that would be extremely draconian.
But I don’t see how anyone could disagree about a law against the sexual abuse, that is rife with these deepfakes.
Deepfakes are already illegal, our govt is pretty useless, they don’t even know their own current laws