IWF warns of more AI-made child sexual abuse videos as tools behind them get more widespread and easier to use
The tools used to create the images remain legal in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation says, even though AI child sexual abuse images are illegal.
The capacity for horrific images of AI-generated child sexual abuse to be reproduced at scale was underlined by IWF in the lead-up to the UK government’s AI Safety Summit.
Internet Watch Foundation finds 3,000 AI-made abuse images breaking UK law.
AI used to generate deepfake images of child sexual abuse uses photos of real victims as reference material, a report has found.
A new report from the IWF shows how the pace of AI development has not slowed as offenders are using better, faster and more accessible tools to generate new criminal images and videos.
Throughout the lockdown period the IWF Hotline has remained operational, but social distancing measures meant some activities had to be scaled back.