Member

I now turn to the topic that has generated considerable debate within the House and is the subject of several of the noble Baroness’s amendments, and that is solicitation. We are committed to making it a criminal offence to ask someone to create a deepfake for you, regardless of where they are based or where their image is created. We are committed to bringing forward amendments to do that during the Commons stages of the Bill, so that it will be criminalised alongside the act of creation itself when the measures come into law. This will ensure that both creating and soliciting the creation of an intimate deepfake image without consent or reasonable belief in consent are criminal. That is a promise I make from this Dispatch Box.