UK Sex Offender Prohibited from Using AI Tools to Create Deepfakes: Court Order

A UK court has prohibited a convicted sex offender, Anthony Dover, from using any AI-creating tools for the next five years.

The tools include text-to-image generators, which can generate lifelike pictures based on written commands and have the potential to create explicit "deepfakes." Dover was convicted of making over 1,000 indecent images of children and was fined £200.

A man named Dover was sentenced at Poole Magistrates Court and ordered to stay away from Stable Diffusion software.

The software has been used by paedophiles to create hyper-realistic child sexual abuse material.

This case came to light just a few days after the UK government announced plans to criminalize the creation of sexually explicit "deepfakes" manipulated using AI.

The government stated that creating deepfakes without consent, even if not shared, will be illegal, and sharing them widely could result in jail time.

The Criminal Justice Bill is set to include a new offense for creating deepfakes.

Minister Laura Farris stated that this amendment aims to send a strong message against the immoral and often misogynistic use of deepfakes.

Deepfakes are typically designed to cause alarm, humiliation, or distress to victims.

The Minister emphasized that deepfakes are a form of dehumanization and degradation, particularly towards women.