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UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok

DATE POSTED:January 12, 2026

The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC.

"The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create - or request the creation of - non-consensual intimate images," according to a statement from Liz Kendall, the UK's Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. "And today, I can announce to the House that this offence will be brought into force this week and that I will make it a priority offence in the Online Safety Act too." As a priority offens …

Read the full story at The Verge.