Associations warn that artificial intelligence is a new and dangerous weapon used by child criminals.

Artificial intelligence (AI), a new technology, is enabling the proliferation of online child pornography. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has led to an increase in online child pornography. Artificial intelligence can be used to generate videos showing virtual children being sexually abused or nude images of teenage girls.

Internet Watch Foundation reports that in September 2023 more than 20.000 images created by artificial intelligence, were posted on a dark web forum, which is the part of the Internet accessible only to those who are not on the public internet. This was reported as one of Europe’s most prominent associations combating the dissemination of this content. In the six-month period between April 2023 to September 2024, the organization received 74 reports about this phenomenon. He calls this progression “chilling”.

A growing phenomenon 

This phenomenon gained momentum at the intersection of 2022-2023, when generative AI became more accessible. Most consumer software places restrictions on certain words and thus makes this impossible. However, other software that is available via the dark internet does not.

In July, Gabrielle Hazan of France Inter , an investigative department devoted to fighting violence against youth, said that 95% of paedocriminal pictures on the Internet will come from artificial intelligence.

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