Online child sexual abuse is at record high levels, according to exclusive figures given to ITV News.
Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report.
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.
IWF analysts have worked through the coronavirus lockdown to make sure children are kept safe.
AI-Generated Child Abuse Sexual Imagery Threatens to “Overwhelm” Internet
The US now hosts more child sexual abuse material online than any other country
Digital fingerprints of a million images of child sexual abuse have been created, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said.
Jordan King, reporter for Metro, looks at IWF transcripts showing actual conversations between online groomers and child victims
Senior writer at WIRED, Matt Burgess, looks into Pornhub trialling a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behaviour
A chilling excerpt from a new IWF report that delves into what analysts at the child protection charity currently see regarding synthetic or AI-generated imagery of child sexual abuse.