{"id":19407,"date":"2025-07-10T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T05:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-videos-surging-online-watchdog-says\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T05:37:32","slug":"ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-videos-surging-online-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-videos-surging-online-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated child sexual abuse videos surging online, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Watch Foundation verified 1,286 AI-made videos in first half of year, mostly in worst category of abuse<\/p>\n<p>The number of videos online of child sexual abuse generated by artificial intelligence has surged as paedophiles have pounced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/25\/ai-created-child-sexual-abuse-images-threaten-overwhelm-internet\">developments in the technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Watch Foundation said AI videos of abuse had \u201ccrossed the threshold\u201d of being near-indistinguishable from \u201creal imagery\u201d and had sharply increased in prevalence online this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/10\/ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-videos-surging-online-iwf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eba5f0352e11b6af9b552e6afb53a1bdd672df0b\/0_0_3251_2601\/master\/3251.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=049fa6fba74b9b409815b0e6ef8d412a\" title=\"AI-generated child sexual abuse videos surging online, watchdog says\" \/>Internet Watch Foundation verified 1,286 AI-made videos in first half of year, mostly in worst category of abuse<br \/>\nThe number of videos online of child sexual abuse generated by artificial intelligence has surged as paedophiles have pounced on developments in the technology.<br \/>\nThe Internet Watch Foundation said AI videos of abuse had \u201ccrossed the threshold\u201d of being near-indistinguishable from \u201creal imagery\u201d and had sharply increased in prevalence online this year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Watch Foundation verified 1,286 AI-made videos in first half of year, mostly in worst category of abuse The number of videos online of child sexual abuse generated by artificial intelligence has surged as paedophiles have pounced on developments in the technology. The Internet Watch Foundation said AI videos of abuse had \u201ccrossed the threshold\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-videos-surging-online-watchdog-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI-generated child sexual abuse videos surging online, watchdog says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}