LONDON: Britain will become the first country to introduce laws against AI tools used to generate abuse images, the government announced late Saturday. The government will make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to generate abusing images of children, punishable by up to five years in prison, interior minister Yvette Cooper revealed. It will also be illegal to possess AI "manuals" which teach people how to use AI to abuse children, punishable by up to three years in prison.
"This is a real disturbing phenomenon. Online child abuse material is growing, but also the grooming of children teenagers online. And what's now happening is that AI is putting this on steroids," interior minster Yvette Cooper said on Sunday. She said AI tools were making it easier for perpetrators "to groom children, and it's also meaning that they are manipulating images of children and then using them to draw and to blackmail young people into further abuse. "It's just the most vile of crimes," she added. — AFP
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