Child sexual abuse images created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are on the rise, making increasingly difficult to identify victims and perpetratorswarned today Europol.
“The volume of automatically generated sexual material images is now a important and growing part of child sexual pornography material on the Internet” and “it is expected that spread further in the near future“, the European police service based in The Hague highlights in its report.
Even in cases where the content is entirely creative Artificial intelligence and do not depict real victims, the child pornography material created by TN still contributes to the objectification and sexualization of children, Europol stressed.
The use of AI applications to create or modify child sexual pornography material also increases “the amount of illegal material in circulation and complicates the identification of victims as well as perpetrators.”
The advent of Artificial Intelligence applications is raising concerns about the use of these applications for malicious purposes, namely through the creation of “deepfakes” – images and videos computer generated, often realistic, based on a real model.
More more than 300 million children are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse every year; researchers at the University of Edinburgh said in May.
The crimes range from extortion targeting teenagers after posting sexual photos and videos online (“sextortion”), to the abusive use of Artificial Intelligence to create fake videos and images, according to investigators.
As well as creating grossly indecent images of minors, criminals are using AI to commit a range of crimes ranging from online fraud to cyberattacks, says the 37-page Europol document, which maps out the online threats Europe currently faces.
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