The government will become the first country to introduce laws against AI equipment used to generate sexual abuse images, the government announced late Saturday night.
The government has made illegal to create, or distribute AI devices designed to generate children’s sexual images, the imprisonment of up to five years, the internal minister Yatete Cooper revealed.
This AI will also be illegal for being an “pedophile manual” officer, which teaches people how to use AI to sexually abuse children, which punishes in jail for three years.
Interior Minster Yett Cooper told Sky News on Sunday, “This is a real disturbing incident. Online child sexual abuse material is growing, but children’s teenagers are also working online. And what is happening now It is that AI is putting it on steroids. “
He said that AI equipment was making “easy to prepare children for criminals, and this also means that they are manipulating the images of children and then to attract them and to the young people and in misbehavior. Are used to blackmail.
“This is just the most relaxed of crimes,” he said.
The minister said that in the new law, “some AI models are being used for child abuse.”
“Other countries are not doing so yet, but I hope everyone else will follow,” he said.
The government said that the AI tool is being used to generate child sexual abuse images by “naked” or “sewing faces of other children on existing images”.
The government said that new laws “would also criminalize predators, who run websites designed for other pedophiles, which advise the child to share sexual abuse materials or to the children about the groom,” The government said.
Cooper told the BBC on Sunday that a recent investigation found that about 500,000 children across the UK were suffering from child abuse every year, “and its online aspect is its growing and increasing part”.
Measures will be presented as part of the crime and policing bill when they come to Parliament.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has warned of increasing number of children’s increasing sexual abuse AI images.
In the 30-day period in 2024, IWF analysts identified 3,512 AI child abuse images on the same dark web site.
The number of the most severe category of images also increased by 10 percent in a year, it was found.
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