AI tools designed to generate child sex abuse material (CSAM) will be made illegal under "world leading" legislation, the government has announced. The crackdown will also target anyone who ...

The move comes as online criminals increasingly use AI to create child abuse material, with reports of such explicit images rising nearly five-fold in 2024, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.

It is vital that we tackle child sexual abuse online as well as offline," she added. "Children will be protected from the growing threat of predators generating AI images and from online sexual ...

Four new laws will tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the government has announced. The Home Office says that, to better protect 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.

AI tools have changed the way those preying on children operate, vastly reducing the time and effort involved in such vile activities and generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that can be ...

Online child sexual abuse material is growing, but also the grooming of children and teenagers online. And what’s now happening is that AI is putting this on steroids,” interior minster Yvette ...

Britain will become the first country to introduce laws against AI tools used to generate sexual abuse images, the government announced late on Saturday (February 1, 2025). The government will ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has put child sexual abuse “on steroids”, the Home Secretary has warned ahead of a crackdown on computer-generated material. Yvette Cooper said a new ban on AI ...