{"id":229649,"date":"2024-04-24T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=229649"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:23:06","slug":"sex-offender-banned-from-using-ai-tools-in-landmark-uk-case-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/sex-offender-banned-from-using-ai-tools-in-landmark-uk-case-artificial-intelligence-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any \u201cAI creating tools\u201d for the next five years in the first known case of its kind.<\/p>\n

Anthony Dover, 48, was ordered by a UK court \u201cnot to use, visit or access\u201d artificial intelligence generation tools without the prior permission of police as a condition of a sexual harm prevention order imposed in February.<\/p>\n

The ban prohibits him from using tools such as text-to-image generators, which can make lifelike pictures based on a written command, and \u201cnudifying\u201d websites used to make explicit \u201cdeepfakes\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dover, who was given a community order and \u00a3200 fine, has also been explicitly ordered not to use Stable Diffusion software, which has reportedly been exploited by paedophiles<\/a> to create hyper-realistic child sexual abuse material, according to records from a sentencing hearing at Poole magistrates court.<\/p>\n

The case is the latest in a string of prosecutions where AI generation has emerged as an issue and follows months of warnings from charities over the proliferation of AI-generated sexual abuse imagery.<\/p>\n

Last week, the government announced the creation of a new offence<\/a> that makes it illegal to make sexually explicit deepfakes of over-18s without consent. Those convicted face prosecution and an unlimited fine. If the image is then shared more widely offenders could be sent to jail.<\/p>\n

Creating, possessing and sharing artificial child sexual abuse material was already illegal under laws in place since the 1990s, which ban both real and \u201cpseudo\u201d photographs of under-18s. In previous years, the law has been used to prosecute people for offences involving lifelike images such as those made using Photoshop.<\/p>\n

Recent cases suggest it is increasingly being used to deal with the threat posed by sophisticated artificial content. In one going through the courts in England, a defendant who has indicated a guilty plea to making and distributing indecent \u201cpseudo photographs\u201d of under-18s was bailed with conditions including not accessing a Japanese photo-sharing platform where he is alleged to have sold and distributed artificial abuse imagery, according to court records.<\/p>\n

In another case, a 17-year-old from Denbighshire, north-east Wales, was convicted in February of making hundreds of indecent \u201cpseudo photographs\u201d, including 93 images and 42 videos of the most extreme category A images. At least six others have appeared in court accused of possessing, making or sharing pseudo-photographs \u2013 which covers AI generated images \u2013 in the last year.<\/p>\n

The Internet Watch Foundation<\/a> (IWF) said the prosecutions were a \u201clandmark\u201d moment that \u201cshould sound the alarm that criminals producing AI-generated child sexual abuse images are like one-man factories, capable of churning out some of the most appalling imagery\u201d.<\/p>\n

Susie Hargreaves, the charity\u2019s chief executive, said that while AI-generated sexual abuse imagery currently made up \u201ca relatively low\u201d proportion of reports, they were seeing a \u201cslow but continual increase\u201d in cases, and that some of the material was \u201chighly realistic\u201d. \u201cWe hope the prosecutions send a stark message for those making and distributing this content that it is illegal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It is not clear exactly how many cases there have been involving AI-generated images<\/a> because they are not counted separately in official data, and fake images can be difficult to tell from real ones.<\/p>\n

Last year, a team from the IWF went undercover in a dark web child abuse forum and found 2,562 artificial images that were so realistic they would be treated by law as though they were real.<\/p>\n

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF), which runs the confidential Stop It Now<\/a> helpline for people worried about their thoughts or behaviour, said it had received multiple calls about AI images and that it was a \u201cconcerning trend growing at pace\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is also concerned about the use of \u201cnudifying\u201d tools used to create deepfake images. In one case, the father of a 12-year-old boy said he had found his son using an AI app to make topless pictures of friends.<\/p>\n

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