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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2023-06-28more like thismore than 2023-06-28
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Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 remove filter
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Offences against Children: Pornography more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to issue guidance on the application of legislation to child pornography generated by artificial intelligence. more like this
tabling member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne Central more like this
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Chi Onwurah remove filter
uin 191568 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2023-07-03more like thismore than 2023-07-03
answer text <p>The Government recognises the many benefits Artificial Intelligence can provide across a range of sectors and our efforts to ensure public safety; however artificial intelligence also poses significant risks to our efforts to tackle the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).</p><p>This Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse online and in our communities across the UK and internationally. Our approach is underpinned by the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy which sets out firm commitments to drive action across the whole system.</p><p>The law in the UK is very clear with regards to production of child sexual abuse material. It is an offence to produce, store, share or search for any material that contains or depicts child sexual abuse, regardless of whether the material depicts a ‘real’ child or not. This prohibition also includes pseudo-imagery that may have been computer-generated.</p><p>Furthermore, the Government is currently driving forward the Online Safety Bill which seeks to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. The Online Safety Bill will, for the first time, place clear legal duties on technology companies to take proactive steps to identify, remove and prevent users encountering illegal content, including child sexual abuse content from platforms/services. AI-generated content is itself capable of amounting to a child sexual abuse offence regardless of whether it depicts a real child or not. Child sexual abuse offences are priority illegal offences in the Bill, and therefore tech companies are subject to proactive duties to identify and remove CSEA content. In addition, Ofcom can require tech companies to use specified technology to remove such content.</p><p>Companies who fail to fulfil their legal duties will be held to account by an independent regulator, Ofcom, who will have strong enforcement powers including fines of up to £18 million or 10 per cent of qualifying annual global turnover (whichever is greater).</p>
answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales remove filter
answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines more like this
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less than 2023-07-03T16:49:24.317Zmore like thismore than 2023-07-03T16:49:24.317Z
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label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines more like this
tabling member
4124
label Biography information for Chi Onwurah more like this