Published: Wed 18 Jun 2025
An increase in sophisticated AI-generated images of child abuse could result in police and other agencies chasing "fake" rather than genuine abuse, a charity has said.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), based in Histon, near Cambridge, finds, flags, and removes images and videos of child sexual abuse from the web.
However, the ever-increasing use of AI images - a 300% increase in 2024 compared to the previous year - has added another layer of complexity to their work.
Read the full artice at BBC News.
In an article in Le Monde, the director of the Internet Watch Foundation, Derek Ray-Hill, warned of the production of child sex abuse images using artificial intelligence and the need to criminalize them.
