AI ‘nudification’ to be banned under new plans to tackle violence against women

Let me guess – they’re going to use this as an excuse to further restrict access to the internet despite the fact anyone who owns a pc with an Nvidia RTX graphics card can run an AI training model completely offline with zero issues to create whatever images they want.

Do people honestly believe the likes of 4chan use online AI sites to generate their nudifications? Get real.

This is literally just going to be an excuse to further control access to the internet, when it simply needs to be a law outlawing the practice itself. I have zero trust in this government now after the OSA debacle.

Edit: just to make clear, I feel strongly that the ownership of these images should be heavily legislated and punished accordingly. However, it inevitably will be used as a way to further restrict access to the internet and control what is seen, said and used for *all* internet users. Its simply inevitable and irreversible.

This will totally work. I foresee no problems implementing and enforcing this whatsoever.

Ah another unenforceable ban, bet the police are delighted.

I’m so fucking sick of this creeping authoritarianism, nanny-state bullshit.

Can we get some more AI regulations already?? There’s so much AI masquerading as real people and/or spreading disinformation. AI companies should be forced to ingrain AI marking into everything it produces so companies can mark, track and block AI bullshit. 

I’m curious how they plan on wording this particular law, unless it’s extremely clear about exactly what they mean, this will just open a can or worms.

Photoshop can be used to create deep fakes, has done for years, and photoshop has AI tools inbuilt now, so will photoshop now be banned?

Just make harsh punishments for creation of this stuff..? For both the creator and AI developer who allows their AI to do that stuff.

Bring them into line by force

What is the connection between ‘AI nudiification’ and violence against women?

i mean how, since a good number of AI models can run locally on a machine vs a cloud environment

It is impossible to put that jinni back in the bottle, everyone can install software on their PC that can generate such videos.

The government is out of touch with technology, they just learned about VPNs after turning the internet into scammers paradise, forcing people to send their ID, to strangers on the internet. Now they will learn that you can install AI software on your own PC, and banning online “nudifing” services will make no difference, because all the realistic porn videos you can only generate on your own PC (the services they are banning are very simple, they are not very good at what they are doing, it is like taking your head and putting it into young Pamela Anderson body)

They don’t even have the technical ability to ban them (not based in the UK), they can only force people to use VPN to access them

Maybe I am missing something, but I would think sharing someone’s naked photos&videos without their consent is already illegal. And you can’t control what people are generating at home, if they are not sharing it with anyone

I dont like how technologically illiterate MPs are dictating Britain digital future all while being sold snake oil and being told “but this will save the children” to American mega-corps who will be creating all the apps and obstactacle and selling government sanctioned data of their own citizens.

I do feel like that now Labour are in, a lot of big tech will charm and scare them into into building a 1984 future while these turkeys still represent us in Parliament

Not a bad thing, but given the track record of these new laws, it will end up just restricting normal users and isolating us even further on the internet. We are already blacklisted from one of the largest image hosting websites, no one is paying the OFCOM fines and kids are using babies first VPN to get around all of it.

This government and the one before it, have no idea how the modern internet works, they have no idea how to actually tackle the problem, meanwhile, all the big companies that run these sites and contribute to the problem are not taking the UK government seriously because they let them pay less tax.

The government need to scrap all this, grow some balls and start pushing hard on the social media companies. Force them to pay taxes, raid the offices, make them enforce misinformation and CSAM laws.

If you want to “protect” kids, stop forcing them in to a corner with all the bad stuff on the internet.

This is making the UK look understandably ridiculous. Everyone is onboard with stopping violence. This is akin to someone drawing a picture, it’s not real.

I want to address the “people will just find a way around it” people here in a very weird and roundabout way.

With Sylvia Plath. Some of you may know she was a famous depressed writer and poet who killed herself by oven. Yes, oven. Back when she did it there were less regulations around gas ovens and cookers and gassing yourself in your oven was one of if not the highest form of suicide. So the government brought in new regulations that now means gassing yourself with your oven is incredibly hard. And guess what. Suicide rates in general fell.

What we find is that even with things people may be determined to do the harder it is the less likely they are to go through with it. Did people still kill themselves after Plath and the regulations brought in? Yes. But the numbers did drop.

Will this legislation stop everyone who wants to be a diabolical little pervert? No. Will it make it harder to do? Yes. Will that lower the overall number of people doing it? Yes.

Tackling these issues is good. It’s a good thing. Could it be better, yes, sure. But if you’re going to argue there’s no point in even trying because people will find a way then you might as well give up on everything.

Okay but what if I have consent?

Not all AI image generation is non-consensual.

Surely this is already illegal? How exactly do they actually propose “banning” it? Seems like performative waste of time at best, and yet another poorly thought out tech law by people who have no idea what they’re talking about which will require yet more spying on regular folk at worst.

How long will it take the UK government to realise that they can’t control the WORLD WIDE web.

What if a person is good at drawing and can just hand draw naked people? Should we ban art?

It shouldn’t be illegal because no harm is done in the production of the image. What should be illegal is the communication of the image if the intent is to defame or cause distress – which is already covered by law.

We shouldn’t criminalise things we find distasteful, only what causes harm.