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Amendment 298 would make it an offence to possess software to create or amend a digitally produced sexually explicit photograph or film. I was delighted that, in the data Act, we passed legislation that firmly placed in law a woman’s right to choose who owns her intimate content. However, my noble friend Lady Bertin is right to highlight that it does not completely stop the use of the nudification apps that have rapidly proliferated with the dawn of AI. Research by campaign group #MyImageMyChoice found that one app processed 600,000 images in the first three weeks after its launch. It is important to note that this technology facilitates a disproportionately sexist form of abuse. The training data used is of women’s bodies, meaning that the output is also of women’s bodies.