New Protections For Victims Of AI Generated NCEI

This Autumn sees the Online Safety Bill very likely to receive Royal Assent and become the Online Safety Act 2023.

It's a big deal; the bill is set to bring in a lot of changes for the technology sector and its regulators. It blazes a trail in terms of the nature and extent of the obligations being placed on user-to-user services and the regulatory regime which it introduces to oversee them . It also seeks to address some very specific criminal matters that have largely arisen during the time that the Bill has taken to be drafted and passed through the parliamentary process.

As my colleagues have previously discussed here and here, the particular issues are revenge porn and its technological (even more) evil-twin; non-consensual exploitative images which despite Raoul Lumb (and others') efforts is better-known as "deepfake porn." The stellar pace of technological development (where criminals are seemingly always ahead of commercial enterprise) and the launch of