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2023-06-28 Cyber
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Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed
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[BBC] Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse material, the BBC has found.
Some are accessing the images by paying subscriptions to accounts on mainstream content-sharing sites such as Patreon.
Patreon said it had a "zero tolerance" policy about such imagery on its site.
The National Police Chief's Council said it was "outrageous" that some platforms were making "huge profits" but not taking "moral responsibility".
And GCHQ, the government's intelligence, security and cyber agency, has responded to the report, saying: "Child sexual abuse offenders adopt all technologies and some believe the future of child sexual abuse material lies in AI-generated content."
The makers of the abuse images are using AI software called Stable Diffusion, which was intended to generate images for use in art or graphic design.
AI enables computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
The Stable Diffusion software allows users to describe, using word prompts, any image they want - and the program then creates the image.
But the BBC has found it is being used to create life-like images of child sexual abuse, including of the rape of babies and toddlers.
UK police online child abuse investigation teams say they are already encountering such content.
Freelance researcher and journalist Octavia Sheepshanks has been investigating this issue for several months. She contacted the BBC via children's charity the NSPCC in order to highlight her findings.
"Since AI-generated images became possible, there has been this huge flood… it's not just very young girls, they're [paedophiles] talking about toddlers," she said.
A "pseudo image" generated by a computer which depicts child sexual abuse is treated the same as a real image and is illegal to possess, publish or transfer in the UK.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead on child safeguarding, Ian Critchley, said it would be wrong to argue that because no real children were depicted in such "synthetic" images - that no-one was harmed.
He warned that a paedophile could, "move along that scale of offending from thought, to synthetic, to actually the abuse of a live child".
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