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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

AI-generated child sexual abuse videos surging online, watchdog says

A person using a laptop
Advances in AI have produced widely available video-generation models that are being manipulated by paedophiles, the IWF said. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Media

The number of videos online of child sexual abuse generated by artificial intelligence has surged as paedophiles have pounced on developments in the technology.

The Internet Watch Foundation said AI videos of abuse had “crossed the threshold” of being near-indistinguishable from “real imagery” and had sharply increased in prevalence online this year.

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