Deepfakes Sharing to Be Criminalised in UK Under New Online Safety Bill

Deepfakes Sharing to Be Criminalised in UK Under New Online Safety Bill

Under a planned amendment to the UK’s new Online Safety Bill, people who share so-called “deepfakes” — explicit images or videos which have been manipulated to look like someone without their consent — will be among those to be specifically criminalised for the first time and face potential time behind bars….