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Child predators are using AI to create sexual images of their favorite ‘stars’: ‘My body will never be mine again’


Safety groups say they’re increasingly finding chats about creating images based on past child sexual abuse material

The Guardian reviewed chatroom threads on the dark web discussing desires for predators who are proficient in AI to create child abuse images of celebrities, including teen idols from the 1990s who are now adults. “As soon as these things were open sourced, that’s when the production of AI generative CSAM exploded,” said Dan Sexton, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based non-profit that focuses on preventing online child abuse. “Images show the rape of babies and toddlers; famous pre-teen children being sexually abused; BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism); content featuring tweens and teenagers, and more,” the report states.

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