AI-generated child sexual abuse material is surging, with lifelike images and videos increasingly difficult to detect.

Reports of child sexual abuse imagery created using artificial intelligence tools have surged 400% in the first half of 2025, ...

A disturbing rise in lifelike, synthetic child exploitation imagery is exposing legal gaps and pushing global agencies to the ...

New data from the Internet Watch Foundation revealed 1,286 AI-generated videos were discovered in the first half of this year ...

AI has brought forth a troubling phenomenon on the Internet: the rapid proliferation of synthetic child sexual abuse material. Law enforcement agencies are raising urgent concerns about this surge ...

AI images get more realistic. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline last year received about 4,700 reports of content involving AI technology — a small fraction of ...

The majority of child sexual abuse cases involve viewing explicit images, according to Biggar, and with the help of AI, creating and viewing sexual images could “normalize” abusing children in ...

Four new laws will tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the government has announced. The Home Office says that, to better protect children ...

A dataset used to train AI image generators contains pictures of child sexual abuse, a study found. The findings add to fears AI tools could spark a wave of AI-generated child sexual abuse content.

AI images get more realistic. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline last year received about 4,700 reports of content involving AI technology — a small fraction of ...

AI images get more realistic. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline last year received about 4,700 reports of content involving AI technology — a small fraction of ...