U.K. will be the first country to criminalize AI child abuse tools.
The United Kingdom will be the first country to introduce laws against AI tools that are used to generate sexual abuse images of children.
The UK government has decided to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to generate sexualised images of children.
Punishment for this type of offence will be up to five years in prison.
It will also be illegal to possess AI “paedophile manuals” which teach people how to use AI to abuse children sexually. The punishment will be three years in prison.
The new law would also ban “some of the AI models being used for child abuse”.
The new law criminalizes “predators who run websites designed for other paedophiles to share vile child sexual abuse content or advice on how to groom children”. The punishment for this offence will be up to ten years in prison.
