politics
January 12, 2026
UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok
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TL;DR
- Creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images is now a criminal offense in the UK.
- Platforms must take 'proactive action' to prevent the proliferation of this content.
- The Data Act, passed last year, criminalizes the creation or request of non-consensual intimate images.
- This offense will be a priority in the Online Safety Act, compelling services to act.
- Ofcom is investigating X for its Grok AI chatbot's deepfake images.
- Penalties for violating the Online Safety Act could reach up to £18 million or 10% of worldwide revenue.
- X stated it takes action against illegal content and that users prompting Grok for illegal content will face consequences.
- X has placed some limits on Grok's image generation, restricting public tagging to paying subscribers, but other methods to create images, including sexualized ones, were found to still exist.
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