New UK law would criminalize creating sexually explicit deepfakes

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1. UK government wants to fight images, at the same time as it fails to deal with gang rapists. Am I understanding this correctly?

2. How will they differentiate deepfakes from other generated images? I mean, i would assume most deepfakes are made just to extort or blackmail regular people. How do you recognize when the purpose of an image is just to show peen and boob and when there is a hostile intention?

3. Another unenforceable bloatlaw.

   Same with the criminalisation of unsolicited nudes that led to no change.

4. It’s a nice gesture, and the law does need to exist. However, it won’t be effective in anyway. You may have a few stories that pop up, where someone is made an example, but at the end of the day the technology is out there now, and that content will be made whether it’s illegal or not.

   We have revenge porn laws too, it doesn’t stop that happening. It’s incredibly prevalent.

5. Wasn’t that already made illegal like years and years ago now?

6. Based, that shit is fucking evil.

7. The criminalisation of content because of the way in which that content was produced is morally questionable. Of course, the authors of this law do not yet dare to speak out against freedom of artistic expression. Yet.

8. Good, even if it is hard to enforce it helps.

9. Defining “Sexually explicit” will need to happen first, otherwise we will see the gradual inclusion of nudity as sexually explicit, then the US fear of breasts will infect our legislation, leading to low cut necklines, short skirts and bulges in trousers being a legitimate basis for 2 years suspended.

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