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  1. Charity wants AI summit to address child sexual abuse imagery

    A leading children's charity is calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to tackle AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, when the UK hosts the first global summit on AI safety this autumn.

  2. More AI-generated child sex abuse material is being posted online

    In a review of material posted on the dark web, the Internet Watch Foundation found that deepfakes featuring children were becoming more extreme.

  3. AI being used to generate deepfake child sex abuse images based on real victims, report finds

    The tools used to create the images remain legal in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation says, even though AI child sexual abuse images are illegal.

  4. Three-year-olds groomed online, charity warns

    Sexual predators are grooming children under six into performing “disturbing” acts of sexual abuse via phones or webcams a charity has warned.

  5. How the sending of one photo led an 11-year-old girl to become a victim of physical sex abuse

    The girl sent a photo to a boy in her class before the image and her phone number were added to all-male online chat groups - she later started disappearing before being abused by "unknown men".

  6. 'He stole my child': Children as young as three manipulated into creating sexual imagery

    "Law enforcement cannot arrest its way out of this problem."

  7. 'Deeply disturbing': Children being tricked into sharing explicit images as 'sextortion' cases soar

    Sextortion is a form of blackmail in which a child is tricked into sending sexual images of themselves to abusers, who then threaten to share the pictures with friends, family or more widely on the internet if they are not paid money.

  8. IWF warning over use of AI-generated abuse images

    A leading child protection organisation has warned that abuse of AI technology threatens to "overwhelm" the internet.

  9. More than 90% of child sexual abuse images on internet are 'self-generated'

    The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) warns of a "shocking" rise of primary school children being coerced into performing sexually online.

  10. Children warned about sharing explicit images

    A new campaign warning children of the dangers of sharing sexually explicit images and videos has been launched, with an appeal for parents and young people to openly discuss these issues.

  11. Child abuse: Could tech devices be exposing children to grooming?

    Young children are now more exposed to being groomed online due to a reliance on tech devices in lockdown, a charity has claimed.

  12. Online child sexual abuse at record high levels - with some exploited within minutes

    Online child sexual abuse is at record high levels, according to exclusive figures given to ITV News.