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Two porn sites investigated for suspected age check failings

The UK demanded in January that porn sites show how they were beefing up age verification to stop children accessing them.

Ofcom announced in January that, in order to comply with the Online Safety Act, all websites on which pornographic material could be found had to introduce "robust" age-checking techniques by July. The "nudifying" technology one of them features involves the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create the impression of having removed a person's clothing in an image or video. Critics suggest such measures risk pushing young people to "darker corners" of the internet where there are smaller, less regulated sites hosting more violent or explicit material.

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