AI advances fuel rise in child abuse deepfakes, UK safety watchdog warns

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are being exploited by predators to create AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse, raising concerns about a potential increase in such content as technology progresses, The Guardian reports, citing a UK-based safety watchdog.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reports that most of these instances involve the manipulation of existing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or adult pornography, where a child’s face is superimposed onto the footage. A smaller number of cases feature entirely AI-generated videos lasting about 20 seconds.