Law reform focuses on making of AI porn images on sly
Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said on Saturday that the Law Reform Commission needed to consider whether creating AI-generated pornographic images of a person without consent should itself be an offence. He was responding to a question on an RTHK radio programme about whether producing such images – without publishing or distributing them – would fall within the scope of a review into AI-related…
The Law Reform Commission is considering whether creating AI-generated pornographic images of a person without consent should be an offence. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam stated that the question could be broken down into different levels, including production, distribution, and the use of such material to commit further offences.
He emphasized that the Law Reform Commission must consider the message it sends about the law's regulation of technology and the need for clearer legal definitions to increase legal certainty. Lam personally hopes some proposals could be produced by the end of the year, although he did not provide a formal timetable.
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