AI image generators giving rise to child sex abuse material - BBC Newsnight

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The BBC’s been investigating the rise in child sex abuse material resulting from the rapid proliferation of open-source AI image generators.

Our Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy looks at how paedophiles have been able to get around safeguards designed to stop sexual AI images being made. He’s left shaken after being shown the never-before-seen illegal imagery that has been redacted by the Internet Watch Foundation.

In Munich, the scientist who created a leading AI image generator is challenged about why he decided to make it open source.

Who are the people who make these images and publish them on the internet? One man who does it tells the BBC that no children are harmed with AI image generation. But a forensic psychologist and former US Marshal argue the material encourages the abuse of kids.