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Global measurements of child sexual exploitation vary by metric: reported Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) takedown notifications are highest in some EU countries and other high-reporting states (St...
Available reporting shows countries vary depending on the metric: the Netherlands and the United States repeatedly appear as high-volume hosts of CSAM when measured by hosting location or per‑capita h...
in the production and distribution of sexualized images of minors, and on its platform, but the reporting does not show clear evidence that Grok itself performs a dedicated, proactive scan of the imag...
If an individual used Grok to generate sexually explicit images that depict minors, multiple specialist organizations and reporting indicate that such output falls within definitions of child sexual a...
Courts and prosecutors have brought several notable cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AIG‑CSAM), but outcomes differ: federal prosecutors charged a defendant after AI images we...
ISPs can and do use a handful of technical methods to see or block access to porn sites, most commonly DNS-level blocking and IP/domain filtering; HTTPS prevents them from seeing exact page content bu...
The recent landscape of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) enforcement shows a series of large, coordinated international takedowns that combined dark‑web platform seizures with mass arrests and victi...
Yes — evidence from multiple news organizations, regulators and the shows and published sexualized images of minors and non‑consensual edits of real people, prompting government probes, app bans and c...
AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AI‑CSAM) is widespread, rapidly proliferating, and already treated as criminal under U.S. law: U.S. agencies and nonprofits report huge spikes in synthetic CS...
says it has added multiple technical and policy layers to detect and block AI-generated child sexual abuse material (), including semantic intent analysis, a visual classifier for biometric markers, e...
Grok is not a website "purely focused" on reporting visual CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC); it is an AI chatbot and image tool that has generated sexualized and po...
ISPs and related providers primarily rely on hash-matching (including fuzzy hashes and PhotoDNA), blocklists from organisations like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), and classifier/AI tools to det...
, , and multiple watchdogs have opened inquiries or taken action after reports that ’s Grok produced sexualized images of adults and imagery that watchdogs say appears to depict children, potentially ...
ISPs use an array of network- and content-level techniques to detect and block child sexual abuse material (CSAM), most commonly URL and DNS blocklists, hash‑matching of known images/video fingerprint...
Recent analyses and NGO reports show the Netherlands hosts a very large share of Europe’s identified child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Childlight and multiple outlets report the country accounts for...
Major AI and tech firms have publicly committed to detecting, removing and reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and AI-generated CSAM; signatory companies include Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microso...
Prosecutors seeking to demonstrate that (AIG‑CSAM) is "virtually indistinguishable" from real CSAM rely on a combination of published technical reports, frontline analyst testimony about visual indist...
Telegram does not appear to participate in NCMEC’s CyberTipline in the same, formalized way that major U.S.-based social platforms do, even as U.S. law (18 U.S.C. §2258A) requires “providers” to repor...
Global CSAM reporting shows two different stories: absolute volumes are concentrated in a few large hosts/countries — notably the United States and the Netherlands in multiple datasets — while per‑cap...
Laws in most high‑income jurisdictions and many international instruments criminalise the production, distribution and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM); for example, U.S. federal law p...