Sickening deepfake and AI-generated child abuse images are doubling every six months, Britain's FBI warns
4 months ago

Sickening deepfake and AI-generated child abuse images are doubling every six months, Britain's FBI warns

Daily Mail  

The amount of deepfake and AI-generated child abuse images online is doubling every six months, a National Crime Agency director has warned. The images are generated by software which learns from photos and videos of real child abuse, Mr Murray, who is also the AI lead for the National Police Chiefs' Council, added. The amount of deepfake and AI-generated child abuse images online is doubling every six months, Britain's FBI warns Hugh Nelson confessing to detectives after using AI to make indecent images of real children Nelson used widely available AI technology to turn photographs of real children into scenes of physical and sexual abuse before selling the images online, making around £5,000 'So you will have videos of children being abused, the model will learn from that and produce imagery so there are real victims. Neil Darlington was sent fully clothed pictures of the girls and then used AI to manipulate the images to make them sexually explicit before threatening to send them to the children's family and friends The next five years will see 'significant increases' in the creation of indecent images using artificial intelligence, it has been said Police released a Powerpoint presentation with mocked-up images of the AI face transfer technology Hugh Nelson used The 27-year-old was shown on camera confessing to detectives that his actions had been 'absolutely grotesque' after being confronted with evidence about his 'sick' deepfake factory.

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Dozens of women targeted by AI-generated nudes, experts raise alarm
1 week, 4 days ago

Dozens of women targeted by AI-generated nudes, experts raise alarm

NL Times  

The number of victims of AI-generated nude images has surged over the past year, raising serious concerns among experts and support organizations. These deepfake images, created using so-called "undressing apps," have become one of the fastest-growing forms of online abuse, according to data from expertise center Offlimits. "It doesn't matter whether the photo is real or not," said Marthe Goudsmit …

Gang arrested over distributing AI-generated child abuse images
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Gang arrested over distributing AI-generated child abuse images

The Independent  

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The surprising way the British government is leading the world on AI
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The surprising way the British government is leading the world on AI

The Independent  

The government has announced that the possession and distribution of AI tools used to produce images of child sexual abuse will become illegal, making Britain the first country in the world to build in this type of protection. He has exploited victim trauma to push his own political agenda via his platform X, which has itself faced serious concerns about …

AI tools have put child sexual abuse ‘on steroids’, Home Secretary warns
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI tools have put child sexual abuse ‘on steroids’, Home Secretary warns

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Artificial intelligence has put child sexual abuse “on steroids”, the Home …

UK becomes first country in the world to criminalise AI child abuse tools
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

UK becomes first country in the world to criminalise AI child abuse tools

Firstpost  

It will also be illegal to possess AI “paedophile manuals” which teach people how to use AI to sexually abuse children, punishable by up to three years in prison UK becomes the first country in the world to criminalise AI child abuse tools. File image/Reuters Britain will become the first country to introduce laws against AI tools used to generate …

Yvette Cooper says Britain will become the first country in the world to make owning AI tools for creating child abuse illegal
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Yvette Cooper says Britain will become the first country in the world to make owning AI tools for creating child abuse illegal

Daily Mail  

Yvette Cooper has announced the UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own AI tools designed to generate images of child sexual abuse. Yvette Cooper has announced the UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own AI tools designed to generate images of child sexual abuse …

Creators of AI child sex abuse images face up to five years in prison under crackdown
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Creators of AI child sex abuse images face up to five years in prison under crackdown

The Independent  

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UK to become first country to criminalise AI child abuse tools
1 month, 3 weeks ago

UK to become first country to criminalise AI child abuse tools

Al Jazeera  

UK will make it a crime to possess, create or distribute artificial intelliegence tools that generate sexual content targeting children. AI tools are being used to generate child sexual abuse images by “nudeifying” real-life images of children or by “stitching the faces of other children onto existing images”, said the government. It will also be a crime punishable by up …

AI action plans should be slowed until safeguards for children in place – NSPCC
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI action plans should be slowed until safeguards for children in place – NSPCC

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The NSPCC said generative AI is already being used to create sexual abuse images of children, and …

Deepfake pornography: 250 UK celebrities victimised, Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman shares ‘haunting’ ordeal
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Deepfake pornography: 250 UK celebrities victimised, Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman shares ‘haunting’ ordeal

Live Mint  

Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman has opened up about the distressing experience of discovering deepfake pornography featuring her, describing it as “haunting.” The 50-year-old journalist became her own “case study” in a Channel 4 investigation, which found that at least 250 British celebrities have been targeted by this invasive phenomenon. Deepfake pornography uses artificial intelligence to superimpose individuals’ faces …

‘Haunting’ to see deepfake pornography of myself, says journalist Cathy Newman
2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Haunting’ to see deepfake pornography of myself, says journalist Cathy Newman

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman has said she found deepfake pornography of …

AI-generated deepfakes targeting women politicians around the world
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AI-generated deepfakes targeting women politicians around the world

The Hindu  

From the United States to Italy, Britain, and Pakistan, female politicians are increasingly becoming victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography or sexualised images, in a troubling trend that researchers say threatens women’s participation in public life. In the United Kingdom, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was among more than 30 British female politicians found to be targeted by a deepfake porn …

Britain to make sexually explicit 'deepfakes' a crime
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Britain to make sexually explicit 'deepfakes' a crime

The Hindu  

Creating and sharing sexually explicit "deepfakes" will become a criminal offence in Britain, the government said on Tuesday, in a bid to tackle a surge in the proliferation of such images, mainly targeting women and girls. The previous Conservative government, which lost power to the Labour Party in July, announced similar plans to make sexually explicit deepfakes a criminal offence. …

Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Those who take intimate images of other people without their consent, or who install equipment …

AI means anyone can be a victim of deepfake porn. Here’s how to protect yourself
4 months, 2 weeks ago

AI means anyone can be a victim of deepfake porn. Here’s how to protect yourself

CNN  

New York CNN — “All we have to have is just a human form to be a victim.” That’s how lawyer Carrie Goldberg describes the risk of deepfake porn in the age of artificial intelligence. While revenge porn — or the nonconsensual sharing of sexual images — has been around for nearly as long as the internet, the proliferation of …

British man sentenced to 18 years for using AI to make child sexual abuse imagery
4 months, 3 weeks ago

British man sentenced to 18 years for using AI to make child sexual abuse imagery

The Independent  

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AI Images Are Spreading, Law Enforcement Is Racing to Stop Them
5 months ago

AI Images Are Spreading, Law Enforcement Is Racing to Stop Them

Associated Press  

A disturbing trend of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology is gaining momentum across the United States. Law enforcement agencies are working aggressively to stop these offenders, with several cases involving AI-generated images leading to arrests and charges. The spread of child sexual abuse images generated through AI tools poses a significant threat to children, and lawmakers …

AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them
5 months ago

AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them

The Independent  

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AI-generated child sex abuse content increasingly found on open web – watchdog
5 months, 1 week ago

AI-generated child sex abuse content increasingly found on open web – watchdog

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy AI-generated child sexual abuse content is increasingly being found on publicly accessible areas …

Inside depraved AI deepfake porn Telegram group that encourages users to share naked pictures of their female family members in vile 'humiliation rooms'
5 months, 1 week ago

Inside depraved AI deepfake porn Telegram group that encourages users to share naked pictures of their female family members in vile 'humiliation rooms'

Daily Mail  

In dark corners of the internet, depraved content creators are sharing pornographic pictures and videos made with artificial intelligence to make money - and humiliate their loved ones. Four years after police concluded a massive bust of depraved content creators in South Korea, deepfake technology brings a sinister new dimension to channels, with hundreds of thousands of people signed up …

California governor signs bills to protect children from AI deepfake nudes
5 months, 3 weeks ago

California governor signs bills to protect children from AI deepfake nudes

The Independent  

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Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say

The Hindu  

Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. One of the LAION-based tools that Stanford identified as the “most popular model for generating explicit imagery” — an older and lightly filtered version of Stable Diffusion — remained easily accessible …

Instagram 'is profiting from AI-generated child abuse images': Charity lawyers target social media giant Meta for 'not tackling' a 'new frontier of horror' that sees paedophiles advertise websites sel
8 months ago

Instagram 'is profiting from AI-generated child abuse images': Charity lawyers target social media giant Meta for 'not tackling' a 'new frontier of horror' that sees paedophiles advertise websites sel

Daily Mail  

Instagram is facing a legal challenge over claims it profits by allowing users to advertise AI-generated child sex abuse images. In what campaigners say is a 'new frontier of horror', paedophiles are using artificial intelligence software to generate thousands of sexualised images of children, which they brazenly market on Instagram, telling users to click on their sites to buy even …

Children’s personal photos used to train AI models without consent: Report
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Children’s personal photos used to train AI models without consent: Report

The Hindu  

Personal images of Australian children were used to train AI models without their consent despite platforms prohibiting web scraping and enforcing strict privacy settings, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. HRW has found about 190 photos of children from across Australia, including indigenous children who may be especially vulnerable, that were used to train the AI model. This …

The world's biggest AI models were trained using images of Australian kids, and their families had no idea
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The world's biggest AI models were trained using images of Australian kids, and their families had no idea

ABC  

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale by the artificial intelligence industry, with personal images, names, locations and ages being used to train some of the world's leading AI models. "Ordinary moments of childhood were captured and scraped and put into this dataset," said Hye Jung Han, a children's rights and technology researcher at HRW. …

AI is creating a new frontier in 'revenge porn', and experts say online misogyny is fuelling the problem
9 months, 1 week ago

AI is creating a new frontier in 'revenge porn', and experts say online misogyny is fuelling the problem

ABC  

Libby Payne was in Year 8 when she experienced image-based abuse, which is often referred to as "revenge porn". In the case of the Bacchus Marsh students, their faces were purportedly taken from social media sites before being manipulated using AI to make "obscene photographs", police said. Ms Payne also says young people are responding to a culture of masculinity, …

AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
9 months, 2 weeks ago

AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children

Wired  

Over 170 images and personal details of children from Brazil have been repurposed by an open-source dataset without their knowledge or consent, and used to train AI, claims a new report from Human Rights Watch released Monday. Human Rights Watch claims that personal details and photos of these children were gathered by data repository Common Crawl and then URLs that …

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes
10 months ago

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

Associated Press  

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. “And so that’s an example of something that could be done much more rigorously.” Cloud service providers and mobile app stores could also “curb web services and mobile applications that are marketed for …

Artificial intelligence is being used to create child abuse material, and police are worried about its spread
11 months, 1 week ago

Artificial intelligence is being used to create child abuse material, and police are worried about its spread

ABC  

It takes less than one minute, with the help of a few prompts into an artificial intelligence image generator, to create a photo depicting a child in a sexually explicit way. It was in 2022 that Detective Superintendent Rayner first received reports of child exploitation material circulating online that had been generated by AI tools. Tasmania's Commissioner for Children and …

What is a deepfake and why does the government want to make them illegal?
11 months, 1 week ago

What is a deepfake and why does the government want to make them illegal?

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The creation of sexually explicit “deepfake” images is to be …

WARNING: Creating 'deepfake' to land you in jail; know how UK is cracking down on sexually morphed pics
11 months, 1 week ago

WARNING: Creating 'deepfake' to land you in jail; know how UK is cracking down on sexually morphed pics

Firstpost  

The UK government will penalise people who are found to create such images without consent. Perpetrators will be facing a criminal record against their names and will be slapped with unlimited fines Creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images in the UK can land a person in jail as the country’s Justice Ministry is mulling a new law that will make such …

Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be criminalised in UK
11 months, 1 week ago

Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be criminalised in UK

Hindustan Times  

The UK will criminalize the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images as part of plans to tackle violence against women. People convicted of creating such deepfakes without consent, even if they don’t intend to share the images, will face prosecution and an unlimited fine under a new law, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement. “This new offence sends …

United Kingdom criminalises creation of ‘deepfake’ images without consent
11 months, 1 week ago

United Kingdom criminalises creation of ‘deepfake’ images without consent

India TV News  

World news: Those who indulge in the creation of sexually explicit “deepfakes” will have to face prosecution under a new law which is undergoing its parliamentary journey, the British government said on Tuesday. Reforms in UK’s Online Safety Act Last year, reforms in the UK's Online Safety Act criminalised the sharing of “deepfake” intimate images for the first time. The …

Deepfake explicit imagery is creating risks for children and challenges for law enforcers
1 year, 1 month ago

Deepfake explicit imagery is creating risks for children and challenges for law enforcers

ABC  

In short: Cybercrime experts say children and teenagers are increasingly being targeted by predators generating deepfake images. "It's sometimes difficult to discern fact from fiction and therefore we can potentially waste resources looking at images that don't actually contain real child victims," AFP Commander Helen Schneider said. In a statement to the ABC, South Australia Police said it was "aware …

Outrage over deepfake porn images of Taylor Swift
1 year, 1 month ago

Outrage over deepfake porn images of Taylor Swift

Raw Story  

Fans of Taylor Swift and politicians, including the White House, expressed outrage on Friday at AI-generated fake porn images of the megastar that went viral on X and were still available on other platforms. Deepfake porn images of celebrities are not new but activists and regulators are worried that easy-to-use tools employing generative artificial intelligence will create an uncontrollable flood …

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows
1 year, 3 months ago

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows

Associated Press  

Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. LAION, which stands for the nonprofit Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network, said in a statement that it “has a zero tolerance policy …

Study shows AI image generators being trained on explicit photos of children
1 year, 3 months ago

Study shows AI image generators being trained on explicit photos of children

LA Times  

David Thiel, chief technologist at the Stanford Internet Observatory, wrote its report that discovered images of child sexual abuse in the data used to train artificial intelligence image generators. LAION said in a statement that it “has a zero tolerance policy for illegal content and in an abundance of caution, we have taken down the LAION datasets to ensure they …

Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead
1 year, 3 months ago

Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While most of the false claims circulating online about …

AI deepfakes, women, and the liberating imagery of feminist sexual vengeance
1 year, 4 months ago

AI deepfakes, women, and the liberating imagery of feminist sexual vengeance

Salon  

In 1968, performance artist Valie Export put on a pair of crotchless pants and strolled into a Munich cinema. Export’s legendary performance piece, “Action Pants: Genital Panic,” came to mind this week when 404 Media reported that yet another internet forum has popped up for guys who create AI-generated deepfake porn. “Familiar girls.” The master’s tools We’ve been inundated with …

Tech firms vow to tackle ‘shocking’ AI-generated child sex abuse images
1 year, 4 months ago

Tech firms vow to tackle ‘shocking’ AI-generated child sex abuse images

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Tech giants including TikTok and Snapchat have signed a pledge vowing …

Paedophiles are using AI to create sexual images of celebrities as CHILDREN, report finds
1 year, 5 months ago

Paedophiles are using AI to create sexual images of celebrities as CHILDREN, report finds

Daily Mail  

An internet watchdog says that its 'worst nightmares have come true' as paedophiles are using AI to flood the internet with sexual images of celebrities as children. Researchers from The Internet Watch Foundation warn that the internet is at risk of being overwhelmed by AI-generated child sex abuse images Of the 3,000 images posted 54 per cent depicted children aged …

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet; UK watchdog calls for action
1 year, 5 months ago

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet; UK watchdog calls for action

The Hindu  

The already-alarming proliferation of child sexual abuse images on the internet could become much worse if something is not done to put controls on artificial intelligence tools that generate deepfake photos, a watchdog agency warned on Tuesday. In a written report, the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation urges governments and technology providers to act quickly before a flood of AI-generated images …

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. Now there are calls for action
1 year, 5 months ago

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. Now there are calls for action

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The already-alarming proliferation of child sexual abuse images on the internet could become much worse if something is not done to put controls on artificial intelligence tools that generate deepfake photos, a watchdog agency warned on Tuesday. If it isn’t stopped, the flood of deepfake child sexual abuse images could bog investigators down trying to rescue children …

Child abuse images created by AI is making it harder to protect victims as law enforcement find it more difficult to identify whether real children are at risk, National Crime Agency warns
1 year, 8 months ago

Child abuse images created by AI is making it harder to protect victims as law enforcement find it more difficult to identify whether real children are at risk, National Crime Agency warns

Daily Mail  

Child abuse images created by artificial intelligence have made it harder to protect victims, the National Crime Agency warned yesterday. The increasing use of realistic AI-generated child pornography has given law enforcement agencies issues over identifying whether real children are at risk. Graeme Biggar, who became the NCA's permanent director-general last summer, warned that the computer-generated images flooding the internet …

Internet Watch Foundation confirms first AI-generated child sex abuse images
1 year, 8 months ago

Internet Watch Foundation confirms first AI-generated child sex abuse images

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The organisation – which works to identify and remove online …

Number of webpages containing most extreme child sex abuse doubles
1 year, 11 months ago

Number of webpages containing most extreme child sex abuse doubles

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In total, 255,571 webpages were confirmed as containing child sexual abuse imagery, having links to the imagery …

Deepfake anyone? AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase
3 years, 3 months ago

Deepfake anyone? AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase

The Hindu  

"Do you want to see yourself acting in a movie or on TV?" "Once the entry point is so low that it requires no effort at all, and an unsophisticated person can create a very sophisticated non-consensual deepfake pornographic video - that's the inflection point," said Adam Dodge, an attorney and the founder of online safety company EndTab. Ad network …

The net is closing on child sexual abuse images
3 years, 8 months ago

The net is closing on child sexual abuse images

Wired  

Each day, a team of analysts faces a seemingly endless mountain of horrors. The team of 21, who work at the Internet Watch Foundation’s office in Cambridgeshire, spend hours trawling through images and videos containing child sexual abuse. Last year alone the team identified 153,383 webpages with links to child sexual abuse imagery. Until now, analysts at the UK-based child …

Deepfakes are jumping from porn to politics. It’s time to fight back
4 years, 3 months ago

Deepfakes are jumping from porn to politics. It’s time to fight back

Wired  

An increasingly large proportion of video content online will be synthetic in 2021 – meaning wholly or partially generated by AI. Some of it will be benign, and even hilarious, such as the YouTubers who are using the power of AI to deepfake Nicolas Cage into every Hollywood movie ever made – but there will be plenty that have been …

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