The UK government has announced that it will bring artificial intelligence chatbots under online safety laws. The move fills an important legal loophole that emerged after the Grok chatbot’s move to produce sexual images.
According to Techxplore, providers of chatbots will be responsible for preventing illegal or harmful content from being generated by these tools; This measure expands the regulations that until now only applied to content shared among social network users. This decision has been taken after international backlash over the production of sexual images by the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. This chatbot allowed users to create and publish sexual images of women and children using simple text commands.
The fringes of producing sexual images by Graak continue
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement ahead of his speech on Monday: “The new measures announced today include a tougher crackdown on illegal and hateful content generated by artificial intelligence.”
He added: “The government will move quickly to close the legal loophole and require all AI chatbot providers to comply with the illegal content obligations in the Online Safety Act; Otherwise, they will face the consequences of violating the law.”
Under the UK’s Online Safety Act, which came into effect in July, platforms that host potentially harmful content must use tools such as facial recognition or identity verification to verify the age of users.
It is also illegal to create or publish private images without people’s consent, or child sexual abuse content, including AI sex deepfakes.
In January, Britain’s media regulator Ofcom launched an investigation into social platform X, which hosts Grok, saying the platform had apparently failed to meet its safety requirements. On the other hand, the Irish Data Protection Authority, which is one of the arms of the European Union, has started an investigation in the same field about Graak.
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