How AI is worsening the dark world of child sex abuse imagery

Published:  Fri 18 Oct 2024

The amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse content is “chilling” and reaching a “tipping point”, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.

The watchdog removes hundreds of thousands of images every year and says it’s already seen more in the past six months than the whole of the previous year – almost all of it on the open web.

Watch the full report at Channel 4.

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