Internet Watch Foundation

And, uh, you know, they were very clear that controlling the ability to take nude images would be a key way in fighting this.

And, um, certainly the, you know, the Internet Watch Foundation, their stats, twenty-seven percent of the images and video that they get are self-generated.

In other words, that's where there isn't another person in the room.

It is the, the child in control of the, the camera.

In the UK, report it to the National Crime Agency's CAOP Safety Centre and report the image itself.

to the Internet Watch Foundation.

If a young person under 18 of those, like if it's someone under 18's image report remove, Childline and IWF work together.

It gets content taken down without the child having to speak to the police first.

That's where children are persuaded, groomed into sending intimate images and then those images are used to blackmail children into sending further images or even in some cases, self-harming you know for the perpetrator and and you know really really graphic stuff and there were briefings to journalists that really showed the kind of problems that they were dealing with I mean the police described this as an organized crime there's the product of organized crime in many cases And, you know, they were very clear that controlling the ability to take nude images would be a key way in fighting this.

And certainly, you know, the Internet Watch Foundation, their stats, 27% of the images and video that they get are self-generated.

In other words, that's where there isn't another way.

in the room.

It's real news.

When you look at what the Internet Watch Foundation in Great Britain is one of all through the world, in, uh, almost every country, you have these hotlines where you can report sexual abuse images of children too, and the Internet Watch Foundation is this hotline for Great Britain.

And, and all of these hotlines are for those parents who would like to do a little research on it.

All of these hotlines are working in a network called INHOPE.

So if you ever want to do some more research on what I'm talking about now, go to the website of the Internet Watch Foundation in the UK or look at what inhope.org is telling you.

The Internet Watch Foundation in Great Britain talked about an increase of deepfake child sexual abuse images of over 400%, uh, during the past two years.

So they're seeing this explosion of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

And of course, now you have this whole thing of which fake is a deepfake, which fake uses a real child, which fake is an AI, AI fake, but we have this, this explosion.

An increase in sophisticated AI-generated images of child abuse could result in police and other agencies chasing fake rather than genuine abuse, a charity has said.

The Internet Watch Foundation, based in Histon near Cambridge, finds flags and removes images and videos of child sexual abuse from the web.

However, the ever-increasing use of AI images, a 300% increase in 2024 compared to the previous year, has added another layer of complexity to their work.

Dan Sexton, IWF chief technology officer, said there was now a risk that law enforcement and other agencies could be trying to rescue children that don't exist or not trying to rescue children because they think they're AI.