Child Protection and AI
Automated classification is used at scale to detect child sexual abuse material, and increasingly in grooming detection and safeguarding triage. The volumes involved make automation unavoidable; the consequences of error make accuracy and human review essential.
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A 41-year-old man has been jailed for four and a half years in Western Australia after using artificial intelligence to create child exploitation material. Matthew John Woodward…
A 51-year-old man has been charged with using artificial intelligence to sexualise photos and videos of young victims he knows. Christopher Kalbfleisch was arrested for the second…
More than 6,000 AI-generated images of child sexual abuse were identified in just six months, according to new figures from the Internet Watch Foundation. This number already…
Meta has agreed to report child sexual abuse and child safety cases to relevant law enforcement agencies in India. The move takes these matters beyond the technology company's…
Current systems are being overwhelmed by mounting workloads, complex technology and the rise of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, a new White Paper warns. The report says…