Jaylyn Lee is facing eight counts of promoting an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent.

Ministers will crack down on sexually explicit deepfake images in new plans to make the practice a criminal offence.

The new law by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) would make it illegal to create or solicit sexually explicit or intimate images without the consent of the people. It would cover deep fake content ...

Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones said perpetrators of the new offences would ‘face the full force of the law’ ...

The 17-year-old girl charged with sending deep fake “nude” pictures of local high school ... an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent, a third-degree felony.

The move is part of a package of laws being introduced in relation to sexually explicit images after victims minister Alex Davies-Jones said one in three women had been subjected to online abuse.

People have been manipulating images ever since photography was invented ... As far back as 2019 a British energy company was swindled out of $240,000 by a deep fake, while in 2021 reports emerged of ...

He has not yet been charged with a crime. Many of those sharing the images pointed out they were fake, and they did not appear to fool lots of people - but a few did seem to be tricked.