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The use of artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and the challenges it poses for detection and authentication.
A steady stream of law-enforcement press releases and reporting shows arrests tied to CSAM stored or shared via cloud services, peer-to-peer networks, cyberlockers, and even AI-generated files; invest...
The probability of being detected for involvement with child sexual abuse material (CSAM) does not follow a simple countdown where risk reliably falls after a fixed period; instead, detection depends ...
There are no reports in the provided sources that any ChatGPT users have been criminally charged specifically for creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) using ChatGPT; the recent hig...
If a person used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) but law enforcement’s search recovered zero photos or videos because the illicit images only ever existed inside Grok or ephemeral ...
OpenAI does ban users who attempt to generate or upload child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and reports confirmed attempts to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the com...
Exposure to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Instagram is terrifying but not automatically criminal; platforms remove and investigate such content, and U.S. law criminalizes possession and distri...
Law enforcement treats forums that mix legal material with CSAM as high-priority, complex targets that require a combination of technical detection, legal preservation and targeted investigative work ...
Forensic examiners authenticate whether suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is of a real child or AI-generated by combining technical image provenance tools (hashing, artifact detection, meta...
Major AI developers publicly prohibit creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and invest in technical mitigations, collaboration with law enforcement, and industry best-practic...
Federal and state law uniformly criminalize possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but courts have split on whether passive viewing alone counts as “possession”; some jurisdictions treat in...
Mere online access to an image can in some circumstances be charged as possession of illegal content, because U.S. federal statutes and many state laws treat electronic receipt, storage, or “accessing...
Accessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Tor is criminal in most jurisdictions and draws specific U.S. federal enforcement, reporting and investigatory regimes while raising complex privacy and...
It is realistic—though not guaranteed—for CSAM to remain undiscovered on file hosts because distribution tactics exploit technical detection limits, jurisdictional hosting choices, and social-networki...
Recent reporting shows law enforcement continues to arrest users tied to CSAM circulated on mainstream forums and social platforms (not solely the dark web), with investigations using cyber tips, plat...
Investigating every person who downloads CSAM from a file-hosting site linked to a teen porn site is legally mandatory in many jurisdictions and technologically possible in limited cases, but it is op...
Prosecutors and researchers report that the number of law‑enforcement‑identified CSAM incidents has surged while prosecutions have not kept pace, creating a growing gap between detection and criminal ...