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  1. AI chatbots and child sexual abuse: a wake-up call for urgent safeguards

    IWF analysts uncover platform hosting chatbot “characters” designed to let users simulate sexual scenarios with child avatars.

  2. AI imagery getting more ‘extreme’ as IWF welcomes new rules allowing thorough testing of AI tools

    AI imagery getting more ‘extreme’ as IWF welcomes new rules allowing thorough testing of AI tools

  3. A guide to our report

    Learn how IWF compiles and analyses data to combat online child sexual abuse, with a focus on transparency and impact in the 2024 report.

  4. AI must be a force for good and not a threat to children

    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.

  5. What did we learn from the US Senate hearing over online harms?

    Wednesday’s hearing brings into sharp focus the problems that organisations like ours, the Internet Watch Foundation, are dealing with every day.

  6. Stability AI joins IWF’s mission to make internet a safer space for children

    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.

  7. AI giving offenders ‘DIY child sexual abuse’ tool, as dozens of child victims used in AI models, IWF warns MPs

    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.

  8. Hive partners with IWF to reduce the spread of child sexual abuse imagery online

  9. Safehire.ai joins IWF to reinforce digital safeguarding in recruitment

    New Member Safehire.ai says the organisation is proud to join the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) as it strengthens a shared mission to protect children from online harm.

  10. ‘Extreme’ Category A child sexual abuse found online doubles in two years

    IWF analysts say ‘insidious’ commercial child sexual abuse sites are driving more and more extreme content online.

  11. EU still hosts the most child sexual abuse material in the world

    New IWF data shows that three in every five child sexual abuse reports are hosted in an EU member state.

  12. MEP visits IWF ahead of vital negotiations in EU Parliament on AI child sexual abuse content

    Dutch MEP Jeroen Lenaers visits the IWF offices in Cambridge, UK, to hear directly from frontline experts about the harms of AI in the fight against online child sexual abuse.