Pedophiles Have A New Hobby: Using AI

[RAMROD 117,126]

Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create images of celebrities as children. 

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said images of a well-known female singer reimagined as a child are being shared by predators.

On one dark web forum the charity says images of child actors are also being manipulated to make them sexual.

Hundreds of images of real victims of child sexual abuse are also now being created using bespoke image generators.

The details come from the IWF's latest report into the growing problem, as it tries to raise awareness about the dangers of paedophiles using AI systems that can create images from simple text instructions.

Since these powerful image generation systems entered the public domain, researchers have warned that they have the potential to be misused to generate illicit images.

In May, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a joint statement committing to tackle the "alarming rise in despicable AI-generated images of children being sexually exploited by paedophiles".

 

The IWF's report details how researchers spent a month logging AI imagery on a single darknet child abuse website and found nearly 3,000 synthetic images that would be illegal under UK law.

Analysts said there is a new trend of predators taking single photos of well-known child abuse victims and recreating many more of them in different sexual abuse settings.

One folder they found contained 501 images of a real world victim who was about 9-10 years old when she was subjected to sexual abuse. In the folder predators also shared a fine-tuned AI model file to allow others to generate more images of her.

The IWF says some of the imagery, including that of celebrities as children, is extremely realistic and would be indistinguishable to untrained eyes.

Analysts saw images of mostly female singers and movie stars that had been de-aged using the imaging software to make them look like children.

The report did not identify which celebrities had been targeted.

 

In one month, the IWF investigated 11,108 AI images which had been shared on a dark web child abuse forum. 

Of these, 2,978 were confirmed as images which fail UK law - meaning they depicted child sexual abuse

More than one in five of these images (564) were classified as Category A, the most serious kind of imagery

More than half (1,372) of these images depicted primary school-aged children (seven to 10 years old) 

As well as this, 143 images depicted children aged three to six, while two images depicted babies (under two years old).

In June, the IWF warned that predators were starting to explore the use of AI to make depraved images of children, but now the IWF says the fears are a reality.

"Our worst nightmares have come true," said Susie Hargreaves,, the chief executive of the IWF.

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67172231

[AnglerfishbraBENUS 5,734]

disgusting. i fear we have only scratched the surface of the monstrosities AI will initiate 

[TimotheeChalamet 6,948]

Good thing they are tightening the guidelines about what AI-generated images can be! Tools like Pika Art already block the generations of pics when the prompt contains the word "child" 

[Plastic Flower 5,586]

Like are we surprised?

[Savage 1,813]

In today's episode of humans shouldn't be allowed to ... it's a no from me

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

AI generators need regulations asap, not only in what they output but input too. Any Generator using Laion (which is almost all of them) has billions of stolen images including CP in it's dataset.

[SOON 4,293]

AI gets scarier each day. This requires a new branch of law just for it

[Ivy 13,723]

I feel like if something can be used for evil it will be used for evil, there's too many evil people in the world

The fact there even exists these forums I get so ill thinking about that fact 

[Roughhouse Dandy 13,614]

Makes me nauseated, but maybe that's better than them looking for the real thing? Idk it's still revolting and it's hard to find an upside to this or AI in general. 

[Knife 7,080]

6 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Analysts said there is a new trend of predators taking single photos of well-known child abuse victims and recreating many more of them in different sexual abuse settings.

E-LEC-TRIC CHAIR.

[BUtterfield 8 41,818]

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[sarahb 17,188]

21 minutes ago, Roughhouse Dandy said:

Makes me nauseated, but maybe that's better than them looking for the real thing? Idk it's still revolting and it's hard to find an upside to this or AI in general. 

If it's sourced from real images of CP then it's still a problem. 

This may be unpopular to say but yeah if the images can be sourced without any victims and provides an outlet that prevents real children from being harmed, AI in this case may be valuable as disgusting as the thought of it being used this way is. 

[Economy 52,861]

On 10/25/2023 at 3:57 PM, AnglerfishbraBENUS said:

disgusting. i fear we have only scratched the surface of the monstrosities AI will initiate 

Humans using new technological power for evil. What else is new?

[Horny Chicken 10,935]

[LG666 1,931]

I hope we can utilize AI to capture when these horrendous images are being seen, shared, and uploaded so that these monsters can be caught and pay the price for their crimes. This is horrifying and I can't even imagine the deeper monstrosities that are being done. The dark web terrifies me and I hope we can come up with a solution to stop these monsters from continuing their sick actions.