{"id":648549,"date":"2026-06-20T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648549\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:24:08","slug":"essex-police-deepfake-campaign-could-expand-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648549\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex Police deepfake campaign could expand nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, Reform UK leader and Clacton MP Nigel Farage was forced to dispel rumours that he had been in a fight with Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey after a series of fake, AI-generated videos<\/a> went viral on X.<\/p>\n

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, is suing Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, after sexualised images were generated of her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She told BBC Essex presenter Sonia Watson how she had been working with victims of deepfake pornography before her incident.<\/p>\n

“It was only a matter of time, I guess, until it happened to me,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I heard a case of a mum who said that her daughter had her image taken by a boy at school, put into a bikini and made to dance, and then that went round the school. and that was really, really distressing for the girl.<\/p>\n

“I think that there should be much stronger regulation around who’s allowed to use your image, your voice and your video because otherwise this can really fool some people.”<\/p>\n

Despite numerous approaches from the BBC for comment in response to Asato’s action, xAI has not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Reform UK leader and Clacton MP Nigel Farage was forced to dispel rumours that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}