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UK Children's Commissioner calls for ban of nudification AI apps...

Surely AI will work out how to evade such a ban


Link Here 28th April 2025

The Children's Commissioner, Rachel de Souza, is calling on the government to introduce a total ban on apps that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate sexually explicit deepfake images of children and real adult people.

Dame Rachel de Souza's new report exposes how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is being misused to create sexually explicit deepfake images of real people, and the alarming effect these nudification tools are already having on children's safety, wellbeing and participation online.

Despite being relatively new technology, GenAI -- which is often free to use and widely available -- has supercharged the growth of these tools. While it is illegal to create or share a sexually explicit image of a child, the technology enabling them remains legal -- and it is no longer confined to corners of the dark web but now accessible through large social media platforms and search engines.

Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said:

  • In our lifetime, we have seen the rise and power of Artificial Intelligence -- once the stuff of science fiction -- to shape the way we learn, connect and experience the world. It has enormous potential to enhance our lives, but in the wrong hands it also brings alarming risks to children's safety online.

  • Children have told me they are frightened by the very idea of this technology even being available, let alone used. They fear that anyone -- a stranger, a classmate, or even a friend -- could use a smartphone as a way of manipulating them by creating a naked image using these bespoke apps.

  • Girls have told me they now actively avoid posting images or engaging online to reduce the risk of being targeted by this technology -- we cannot allow sit back and allow these bespoke AI apps to have such a dangerous hold over children's lives.

  • The online world is revolutionary and quickly evolving, but there is no positive reason for these particular apps to exist. They have no place in our society. Tools using deepfake technology to create naked images of children should not be legal and I'm calling on the government to take decisive action to ban them, instead of allowing them to go unchecked with extreme real-world consequences.

Speaking to children about this emerging technology, the Commissioner's new report published today, 28th April, analyses the threat of nudification technology, assessing its use online and the impact on children. In focus groups, children told the Commissioner about their biggest concerns:

  • The high risk of harm to children: AI that generates naked or other sexually explicit deepfake images disproportionately targets girls and young women, and many tools appear only work on female bodies -- contributing to a culture of misogyny both online and offline.

  • Easy access to harmful tools: These AI tools are widely available via mainstream platforms, including the biggest search engines and app stores, with GenAI making the creation of harmful content easier and cheaper than ever.

  • Change in girls' online participation: Girls spoke about taking preventative steps to keep themselves safe from becoming victims of nudification tools by limiting their online participation -- in the same way that girls often take steps to protect themselves in real life, such as not walking home alone.

  • Demand for action from children: Young people want action taken to tackle the misuse of AI tools. Some children even questioned the purpose of these technologies which are so often used to harm: Even before any controversy206 I could already tell it was gonna be a technological wonder that's going to be abused. -- Girl, 16

The Children's Commissioner is calling for urgent action, including:

  • Banning bespoke nudification apps that enable users to generate sexually explicit images of real people;

  • Creating specific legal responsibilities for developers of GenAI tools to identify and address the risks their products pose and to mitigate the risks to children;

  • Establishing effective systems to remove sexually explicit deepfake images of children from the internet.

  • Recognising deepfake sexual abuse as a form of violence against women and girls and taking it seriously in law and policy. 

 

 

 

This is a tolerant country...BUT...

A British court prosecutes a man for blasphemy


Link Here5th February 2025
Campaigners have warned Sharia law is being brought to the streets of Britain following the case of a man who burned a Quran at the memorial to the Manchester Arena bombing victims.

The man admitted a racially aggravated public order offence after he was filmed tearing pages from the Islamic religious book and setting them alight on Saturday. He had publicised the event online beforehand, and it was streamed on social media. He was filmed tearing pages from the Quran and setting them alight whilst holding an Israeli flag.

The case has since been criticised by free speech campaigners, however, who have warned it could also leave Frost at risk of retaliation. Stephen Evans, chief executive of the National Secular Society, told The Telegraph:

[The case] brings us perilously close to reinstating blasphemy laws.

The man's name, date of birth and the borough where he lives were all disgracefully published by Greater Manchester Police on X in a post announcing he had been charged.

In a letter to the force, Lord Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union raised concerns about the defendant's safety as a consequence. He claimed that the case should never have been a police matter, adding the decision to name the man 'may well have placed him in great jeopardy.

District Judge Margaret McCormack asked for a pre-sentence report and adjourned sentencing. She told the man:

The Quran is a sacred book to Muslims and treating it as you did is going to cause extreme distress. This is a tolerant country ...BUT... we just do not tolerate this behaviour.

She bailed Frost on condition he does not post anything further on social media and will pass sentence on April 29.

 

 

Offsite Article: Islamic blasphemy laws have come to Britain...


Link Here4th February 2025
Full story: Public Order Act...Enabling police censorship
By arresting a man for burning the Koran, the authorities are doing the bidding of Islamist reactionaries. By Fraser Myers

See article from spiked-online.com

 

 

Taking hostages...

British police ban video game from steam that depicts the 7th October Hamas attack on Israel


Link Here26th November 2024
British counter-terror police have blocked a video game that allows players to recreate Hamas's Oct 7 attacks on Israel.

The police have ordered Steam, an online video game marketplace, to remove Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque from its UK store.

The game drew the attention of terror police because it included scenes of players paragliding into an Israeli army base and killing soldiers. Although the game does not refer to Hamas directly, a trailer displays Israeli soldiers being shot in the head by terrorists wearing green Hamas-style headbands.

Nidal Nijm, the game's Brazilian-Palestinian creator, said in a statement on Steam's website:

The request to block my game in the UK came from the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU). So this is clear that UK authorities consider my game as 'terrorist' propaganda.

Despite being blocked in Austria, Germany and the UK, the video game remains on sale in the US for $14.99 (£12).

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: The Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) is a national Counter Terrorism Policing unit based within the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which is dedicated to the assessment of potential terrorist and extremist material found online by the public.


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