Though it has many legitimate uses, the dark side of deepfake technology has once again been highlighted by Labour MP Jess Asato’s current claim against Elon Musk’s xAI for its Grok feature which produced fake sexualised images of her. Such non-consensual sexual deepfakes entail highly gendered harms that primarily harm individual targets, as well as women and LGBTQ+ groups more generally. For this reason, requesting, creating, sharing and threatening to share such deepfake content is now criminalised (in sections 66B, 66E-G of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, as amended) … (more)
[Rebecca Moosavian, Inforrm’s Blog, 7 August 2026]
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