Law against making non-consensual intimate images to come into force this week

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The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has told MPs the government will legislate to ban the supply of nudification apps, and that a law making it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images will be brought into force this week. She was speaking in the Commons about the way the Grok AI tool has been used by X users to digitally undress women and children, creating sexualised deepfake images.

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00:00The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has told MPs the government will legislate to ban the

00:06supply of nudification apps and that a law making it illegal to create non-consensual

00:11intimate images will be brought into force this week. She was speaking in the Commons

00:16about the way the Grok AI tool has been used by X users to digitally undress women and children,

00:23creating sexualised deepfake images. Kendall said X's decision last week to restrict the

00:29Grok tool to subscribers does not go anywhere near far enough. She told MPs that under the

00:34Online Safety Act, sharing intimate images without consent or threatening to share them

00:39is already a criminal offence for individuals and platforms.

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