More children victims of online sexual abuse than ever – as AI opens new battleground

Published:  Thu 30 May 2024

More children than ever are becoming victim of online sexual abuse, with technology offering abusers more access to them than ever. New figures show the global scale of the problem with one in eight children exposed to indecent images last year. But the rise of artificial intelligence is opening up a fresh battleground in what’s been described as a war against child sexual abuse.

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