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Europol warns of rise in AI child abuse imagery
AI makes it more difficult to identify real-life victims and perpetrators, the agency said. It also warned of using so-called "deepfake" technology to mimic real people.
In May, a study by the University of Edinburgh in the UK found that some 300 million children a year were victims of online sexual exploitation in some form or another. The study found that AI had added a new dimension to online abuse in the form of deepfakes of real people. "Even in the cases when the content is fully artificial and there is no real victim depicted, AI-generated child sex abuse material still contributes to the objectification and sexualization of children," Europol said.
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