Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says
Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says Add1 Some children and families were extorted for financial gain by predators using AI-made CSAM, according to the NCMEC. The center received 4,700 reports of images or videos of the sexual exploitation of children made by generative AI, a category it only started tracking in 2023, a spokesperson said.Add2 “The NCMEC is deeply concerned about this quickly growing trend, as bad actors can use artificial intelligence to create deepfaked sexually explicit images or videos based on any photograph of a real child or generate CSAM depicting computer-generated children engaged in graphic sexual acts,” the NCMEC report states. “For the children seen in deepfakes and their families, it is devastating.” AI-generated child abuse content also impedes the identification of real child victims, according to the organization.Add3 Creating such material is illegal in the United States, as making any visual dep...
