{"id":1718,"date":"2023-12-05T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T01:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T01:31:59","slug":"%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd%e6%8f%90%e5%87%ba%e6%96%b0%e7%9a%84%e5%9c%a8%e7%ba%bf%e5%ae%89%e5%85%a8%e6%b3%95%e6%a1%88%e7%94%a8ai%e5%88%a4%e5%ae%9a%e7%94%a8%e6%88%b7%e6%98%af%e5%90%a6%e8%be%be%e5%88%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/1718.html","title":{"rendered":"The UK proposes a new online safety bill: using AI to determine whether users are of legal age to watch pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd\" title=\"[Sees articles with [British] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >U.K.<\/a>The government proposed a new online safety bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting children from online pornography, and one of the controversial proposals is to use<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e6%8a%80%e6%9c%af\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Artificial Intelligence Technology<\/a>Determine whether the user is of legal age to view pornographic content.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new Online Safety Act, websites and apps that display or publish pornographic material will need to ensure that children are generally not exposed to pornographic material on their services.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%89%b2%e6%83%85%e7%89%87\" title=\"[Sees articles with labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Porn<\/a>Age must be 18 years and above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1719\" title=\"202308091546519392_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/202308091546519392_1.jpg\" alt=\"202308091546519392_1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source Note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is authorized by Midjourney<\/p>\n<p>According to a study by the Office of the Children&#039;s Commissioner for England, the average child is 13 years old.<span class=\"spamTxt\">first<\/span>Melanie Dawes, chief executive of media regulator Ofcom, said: &quot;Whatever approach is adopted, we expect all services to provide strong protection for children from accidental exposure to pornography, and ensure that the privacy rights and freedoms of adults accessing legal content are protected.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The regulator&#039;s proposal for facial age estimation involves using artificial intelligence to analyze viewers&#039; facial features, which may require taking a selfie on the device and uploading it. In addition, the proposed guidelines include photo identity matching, requiring users to upload photo identification such as a passport or driver&#039;s license, and credit checks. Another suggestion is open banking, which would allow users to agree to banks sharing information with online porn sites to confirm they are over 18.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think tank, said mandatory age verification could threaten user privacy and put users at risk of breach and abuse by increasing the amount of sensitive data held by third parties. The regulator said weaker methods such as self-declaration of age, online payment methods that do not require an 18-year-old, and disclaimers or warnings would no longer meet the criteria in its new guidance. Ofcom said it expected to publish final guidance in early 2025.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. government on Tuesday introduced a new online safety bill aimed at protecting children from online pornography, with one controversial proposal to use artificial intelligence technology to determine whether users are of an age to legally view pornographic content. Under the requirements of the newly passed Online Safety Act, websites and apps that display or publish pornographic content would need to ensure that children are not normally able to access pornography on their services. The age to legally view pornography in the UK is 18 and over. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image license provider Midjourney According to a study by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, children are first exposed to online pornography at the age of 13 on average, with nearly a quarter of them having been exposed by the age of 11, and 10% of them even at the age of 9.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[205,553,552],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-205","tag-553","tag-552"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}