Major increase in child sexual abuse videos made with AI
Exclusive data shared with Channel 4 News shows that 1,300 videos have been found globally so far in 2025.
11 July 2025
IWF In The News
I wish my job didn't exist - the team that has to find child abuse images
Published: Wed 5 Mar 2025
At home she is a loving grandmother who enjoys spending time with her grandkids but at work Mabel has to watch the internet's most "abhorrent" child sex abuse.
She works for one of the few organisations licensed to actively search the internet for indecent content to help police and tech firms take the images down.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) helped remove a record almost 300,000 web pages last year, including more artificial intelligence (AI) generated images than ever as the number of these types of images have increased almost fivefold.
Read the full article at BBC News.
