TechScape: Could a Labour 'nudification' manifesto bring more safety to AI?

The politics of AI regulation became a little clearer this weekend, after an influential Labour thinktank laid out its framework for how the party should approach the topic in its manifesto. The policy paper, produced by the centre-left Labour Together thinktank, proposes a legal ban on dedicated nudification tools that allow users to generate explicit content by uploading images of real people. It would also create an obligation for developers of general-purpose AI tools and web hosting companies to take reasonable steps to ensure they are not involved in the production of such images, or other harmful deepfakes. Labour Together's suggestions aren't party policy yet, but they point at the sort of issues Westminster wonks think a campaign can be built on. For the last few decades, technology has been a curiously apolitical realm in the UK, with all parties agreeing on the vague idea that it's important to support British technology as a driver of growth and soft power, and little active campaigning beyond that.