Internet Watch Foundation Senior Analyst Natalia* stated: “It is very apparent from the unsettling dark web conversations observed by the IWF Hotline that AI innovations are regarded with delight by applyrs of child sexual abapply material.
“Every new development in generative AI is extolled for its ability to enhance the realism, to heighten the severity, or build more immersive, any conceivable sexual scenario with a child. This could be through adding audio to video, being able to depict multiple people interacting or even being able to successfully manipulate imagery of a real child known to an offfinisher.
“Instead of being a vehicle for connection, the technology only deepens offfinishers’ capacity to view children and victims as abstract playthings, whose likenesses can be altered finishlessly for their own enjoyment.
“We know this affects victims and survivors, as its creation and distribution is just as keenly felt as with traditional forms of child sexual abapply.”
One offfinisher quoted in the report describes how surprised they are at “just how uncensored” the technology is, exclaiming that the ability to edit and finetune is “going to be nuts”.
Another praises an AI child sexual abapply video stateing it is “an absolute masterpiece” and how “anything you desire is possible in extreme realism.”
Analysts have also observed discussions on the ability to generate AI imagery of children known to offfinishers, with one individual stateing they are “impressed with the results of [AI] image to video conversions”, and how they want to apply hidden cameras to obtain footage of real children to convert into AI videos.
The IWF is doubling down on the call by its Chief Executive in Rome last year that all AI child sexual abapply imagery, and the tools applyd to create it, should be banned across the EU. This includes the creation, possession and distribution of the content as well as instructional materials and AI models that are fine-tuned to generated child sexual abapply imagery.
This can be implemented through a revised law, the Child Sexual Abapply Directive, which is currently being debated by EU lawbuildrs.
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