AI tools have put child sexual abuse ‘on steroids’, Home Secretary warns
The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.
2 February 2025
IWF In The News
Child sexual abuse: Self-generated imagery found in over 90% of removed webpages
Published: Wed 17 Jan 2024
More than 90% of child sexual abuse webpages taken down from the internet now include self-generated images, according to the charity responsible for finding and removing such material.
The Internet Watch Foundation said that it discovered self-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) featuring children under 10 on more than 100,000 webpages in the last year. That figure is an increase of 66% on the year before.
In total, a record 275,655 webpages were confirmed to contain CSAM, the IWF said, an increase of 8%. The new data prompted a renewed attack on end-to-end encryption from the UK government, backed by the IWF.
Read the full article at The Guardian.
