With a breakthrough movement, the UK has announced that it will be the first country to introduce the AI tools used to create images of child sexual abuse.
Minister of Interior Ivet Cooper has revealed a new law to own, create, or distribute the AI tools designed to generate such content. Criminals may be housed in prison for up to five years.
This law also illegal to own AI’s “Pediatric Manual”. This is a guide that teaches individuals how to use AI to sexually abuse children. Criminals involved in such documents may be housed in prison for up to three years.
In addition, the law targets predators who operate websites that promote advice on the sharing of children’s sexual abuse content and grooming. Confirmed people may be housed in prison for up to 10 years.
The AI tool was misused for child abuse
The government is misused by the AI tool to create an image of children’s sexual abuse by “nude” an image of a child’s real life or sewing a child’s face to existing explicit content. I emphasized that. These operated images are often used to take care of them, are terrifying, or even younger victims.
Minister Evet Cooper emphasizes that this phenomenon is “the most sneaky of crime” and that AI has worsened the issue of sexual abuse of online children. “AI puts this in steroids,” she told Sky News, and added that the perpetrators were using these tools to operate and exploited their children more easily.
Cooper also shared amazing statistics during the BBC and revealed that about 500,000 children in the UK were victims of some form of child abuse each year. She said that the online aspect of abuse is growing rapidly, and the new law is becoming more important.
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The active posture of the UK sets precedents in other countries. Cooper hoped that other countries would follow, saying, “Other countries have not done this yet, but we hope everyone will follow.”
Increase the threat of abuse content generated in AI
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is an organization based in the UK that fights online children’s sexual abuse, warns about an increase in the rate of illness in abused images generated by AI. in 30 days In 2024, IWF analysts identified 3,512 AI child abuse images on a single dark website. The organization also reported an increase of 10 % of the most serious category abuse images in the past year.
New measures will be introduced as part of crime and police bills when they are presented in Congress. The law aims to provide strong protection to vulnerable children to increase the threat of exploitation of AI -compatible children.
