ADVERTISEMENT Making sexually explicit “deepfake” images will become a criminal offence in the UK, the government said amid a boom in new generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools and a concerning rise in artificial images. Deepfakes are pictures or videos that appear to be hyperrealistic but are digitally altered and spread to damage the reputation of someone. “It is unacceptable that one in three women have been victims of online abuse,” Alex Davies-Jones, the UK’s victims and violence