Offenders could face jail if image is widely shared under proposed amendment to criminal justice bill
The minister for victims and safeguarding, Laura Farris, said the bill sent the message that making deepfake images was ‘immoral and often misogynistic’The minister for victims and safeguarding, Laura Farris, said the bill sent the message that making deepfake images was ‘immoral and often misogynistic’Creating a sexually explicit “deepfake” image is to be made an offence under a new law, the Ministry of Justice has announced.
The creation of a deepfake image will be an offence regardless of whether the creator intended to share it, the department said. The Online Safety Act, introduced last year, has already criminalised the sharing of deepfake intimate images, whose creation isThe offence will be introduced through an amendment to the criminal justice bill, which is making its way through parliament.
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