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AI advances could lead to more child sexual abuse videos, watchdog warns
IWF warns of more AI-made child sexual abuse videos as tools behind them get more widespread and easier to use
Published: Thu 3 Dec 2020
Written by: The Guardian
Isobel has been working throughout lockdown. With her colleagues in the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analyst room in Cambridge she has been responding to a rising number of tipoffs from the public that child abuse images are circulating online. The work is gruelling.
“Today I started at 8.30 and I’ll be looking at content all day long: thousands and thousands of images in a day. We analysts come from all sorts of backgrounds. The main thing is your emotional resilience – it’s incredibly important that you can look at this content and then go home and not think about it.”
Lockdown has helped drive a record year for reports to the hotline.
Read more at The Guardian.
IWF warns of more AI-made child sexual abuse videos as tools behind them get more widespread and easier to use