Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

With regard to the article the Deputy points to, one of the real challenges now with AI is that the people who are seen might never have existed. There is actually a website, thispersondoesnotexist.com, which creates images of people who do not exist. It is easy to extend that, and it has been extended, to children. The kind of content in that article might not contain any actual human being. They might not actually be in some sense a victim. I am not a legal expert but if the person depicted as being abused and as being subject to a crime that does not actually exist then what is the crime? We need to worry about that in the broad context of generative AI because what one is seeing might not actually be real. There are people far more qualified than I am to talk about the legal issues of this.