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Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says | Technology
More children and families extorted with AI-made photos and videos, says National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The center received 4,700 reports of images or videos of the sexual exploitation of children made by generative AI, a category it only started tracking in 2023, a spokesperson said. Creating such material is illegal in the United States, as making any visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct is a federal crime, according to a Massachusetts-based prosecutor from the Department of Justice, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The center and law enforcement cannot legally take action in response to some of the reports, including ones made by content moderation algorithms, without human input.
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