“The act of making such an image is rightly illegal – the technology enabling it should also be,” explained Dame Rachel de Souza, the nation’s children’s commissioner, earlier. Kerry Smith, of the Internet Watch Foundation, which targets child sexual abuse online, welcomed the measures, commenting: “We are also glad to see concrete steps to ban these so-called nudification apps which have no reason to exist as a product,” according to a report at the Christian Institute. The BBC said the nation’s Online Safety Act already starts to address the problem of software that moves one person’s face to another body, or appears to remove a person’s clothing in an image.
Author: Bob Unruh
Published at: 2026-01-06 21:45:31
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