Mum of James Bulger wins landmark battle over sick AI-generated images of murdered son

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The mum of murdered James Bulger has won a landmark battle over sickening AI-generated images that depicted her two-year-old son.Denise Fergus was horrified when AI-generated content appeared on TikTok last year showing an avatar of James talking about his murder.The 54-year-old demanded urgent action and has now managed to persuade Google to tighten rules on images of dead children.It comes after the videos posted on TikTok became accessible on the internet search engine, the Mirror reports.And now bosses at the tech giant have promised action against such content and say offending images will be removed from its platform, including YouTube, from tomorrow.Denise, 54, said: “I am so relieved about the implementation of new rules on AI-generated content featuring deceased minors."Last year, I was horrified to discover individuals were creating and posting AI-generated videos of my beloved James.“The distress this caused me and my family was immeasurable.

It was a violation of our grief.”She added: “I want to express my gratitude to the Daily Mirror for their commitment to raising awareness and supporting efforts to put an end to the distressing behaviour of creating AI-generated content featuring deceased minors.” Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Denise demanded that TikTok remove the awful videos when they appeared in August, which it eventually did.Google has now updated its harassment and cyber bullying policies, vowing to turn the screw on people creating these kind of sick AI-generated images.This type of insensitive content will be immediately deleted under new rules and a final warning will be handed to users.The offending person’s