Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to protect victims of AI deepfakes.

The Online Safety Act requires in-scope services to tackle illegal content and protect children from harmful content, including where it is AI generated. Ofcom has robust enforcement powers for non-compliance.

In the coming weeks, the offence of creating intimate images without consent, including using AI, will come into effect. The Secretary of State announced it will be made a priority offence under the Act, giving users the strongest protections from such content. In addition, the Government has announced that it will criminalise nudification apps – which will make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images.