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

Party looking at proposal to outlaw tools used for nonconsensual pornography and promise not to tolerate electoral misinformation

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.