A unique safety tech tool which uses machine learning in real-time to detect child sexual abuse images and videos is to be developed by a collaboration of EU and UK experts.
AI-Generated Child Abuse Sexual Imagery Threatens to “Overwhelm” Internet
AI-generated child sexual abuse is on the agenda at the White House as Internet Watch Foundation CEO Susie Hargreaves flies to Washington to discuss how to address the rising threat.
AI-generated child sexual abuse videos have surged 400% in 2025, with experts warning of increasingly realistic, extreme content and the urgent need for regulation to prevent full-length synthetic abuse films.
AI imagery getting more ‘extreme’ as IWF welcomes new rules allowing thorough testing of AI tools
A new IWF report reveals record levels of AI‑generated child sexual abuse imagery and alarming insight into how offenders are exploiting emerging technologies. The charity is urging EU lawmakers to introduce a zero‑tolerance ban on AI‑generated abuse and the tools used to create it.
The capacity for horrific images of AI-generated child sexual abuse to be reproduced at scale was underlined by IWF in the lead-up to the UK government’s AI Safety Summit.
Wednesday’s hearing brings into sharp focus the problems that organisations like ours, the Internet Watch Foundation, are dealing with every day.
The world’s leading independent open source generative AI company Stability AI, has partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation to tackle the creation of AI generated child sexual abuse imagery online.
AI giving offenders ‘DIY child sexual abuse’ tool, as dozens of child victims used in AI models, IWF warns MPs. The IWF has welcomed upcoming new legislation while giving evidence in Parliament this week.