The UK government has officially announced the closure of a legal loophole that allowed AI chatbot developers to evade strict regulation. Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed that the provisions of the "Online Safety Act" will now fully apply to chatbots. This decision came as a direct result of the scandal surrounding Elon Musk's Grok neural network, which users actively used to create obscene deepfakes.
Previously, the law of the country with the highest number of imprisonments related to online posts mainly focused on content shared between users (social networks, messengers). Chatbots operating in a "one-on-one" mode with the user often escaped regulatory scrutiny.
Now, the rules of the game are changing — developers will bear direct responsibility for what their algorithms generate. If the bot produces illegal content, companies face colossal fines — up to 10% of their global turnover, and in extreme cases — complete blocking of the service in the country.
Of course, total internet censorship is justified by nothing other than protecting children from the corrupting influence of perverts online.