Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves
- Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce.
- The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or “faked” in some way, including with AI and nudification tools.
- In the first six months of this year it received 420 reports from children of images of themselves that they believed had been faked or manipulated to appear explicit.
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- Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce.
- The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or “faked” in some way, including with AI and nudification tools.
- In the first six months of this year it received 420 reports from children of images of themselves that they believed had been faked or manipulated to appear explicit.
Sources: Guardian