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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Labour considers ‘nudification’ ban and cross-party pledge on AI deepfakes

Peter Kyle
The shadow minister Peter Kyle said: ‘The capacity for deepfakes to harm individuals, undermine elections, and increase fraud has been clear for some time.’ Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Labour is considering proposals to tackle AI deepfakes, including a ban on so-called nudification tools, used to generate nonconsensual pornography, and signing up to a cross-party pledge not to tolerate deepfakes that constitute electoral misinformation, the Guardian can reveal.

The policy paper, produced by the centre-left Labour Together thinktank, proposes a legal ban on dedicated nudification tools that allow users to generate explicit content by uploading images of real people.

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