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Comment by Clare McGlynn
Professor of Law at Durham University; leading expert on image-based sexual abuse and deepfake legislation
The government last year legislated [...] like asking Grok. But we are still waiting for that law to come into effect. [...]AI Verified source (Jan 6, 2026)
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AI Verified
At the supplied Big Issue URL, the 6 Jan 2026 article by Greg Barradale explicitly attributes these words in-text to Clare McGlynn. The page contains the longer sentence beginning "The government last year legislated ... like asking Grok" and continuing "But we are still waiting for that law to come into effect," followed by a further sentence about the law not yet being implemented, so the stored text is a faithful ellipsis excerpt. The stored date and source URL also match. ([bigissue.com](https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/grok-elon-musk-sexualised-images-bikini-trend/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
Disputed
At the cited Big Issue article dated 6 Jan 2026, Clare McGlynn is quoted about the new offence for requesting intimate images and says the law is still not yet in force, but the page contains no match for the submitted ending about abuse being “life-threatening” or “life-ending.” A separate source attributes to McGlynn the differently worded line “It can be life-ending and life-threatening.” This means the submitted text is not verbatim from the cited source and appears to be a conflation/material alteration. ([bigissue.com](https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/grok-elon-musk-sexualised-images-bikini-trend/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Quote (2026) confirmed accurate. The bigissue.com source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but web search confirms the quote: the phrase 'This form of abuse for women can be life-threatening, but it can also be life-ending' is verbatim attributed to Clare McGlynn (referencing victims who died by suicide after being blackmailed with AI-generated sexualised images). The first portion ('The government last year legislated to make it a criminal offence to request someone to make an intimate image without consent – like asking Grok. But we are still waiting for that law to come into effect') is consistent with the Big Issue article's January 2026 timing: the offence (under the Data Use and Access Act 2025) only came into force on February 6, 2026, so at publication she was indeed 'still waiting.' Author attribution (Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law at Durham University, leading expert on image-based sexual abuse and deepfake legislation whose research underpinned the new UK law) is correct. Her campaign to criminalize non-consensual sexual deepfakes — a form of AI impersonation of real individuals without consent — aligns with the 'for' vote on 'Ban AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent.' Author, content, year, source contents, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 1mo ago
replying to Clare McGlynn