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Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse

2026-05-18 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

UK regulator Ofcom is tightening the screws on tech platforms over AI-generated deepfake intimate images targeting women and girls. Turns out giving everyone access to AI image generators without guardrails leads to exactly the kind of abuse anyone could have predicted. New codes of practice will force platforms to actually detect and stop this content — revolutionary concept, apparently.

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