Artificial intelligence making life easier? Maybe that's not always a good idea

 

Top headline:  TUM Partners of Excellence, 12/5/2024

Bottom headline:  New York Times, 7/10/2025

Cecelia Kang reports in the Times:

Over the past two years, new A.I. technologies have made it easier for criminals to create explicit images and videos of children. Now, researchers at organizations including the Internet Watch Foundation and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are warning of a surge of new material this year that is nearly indistinguishable from actual abuse. 

New data released Thursday from the Internet Watch Foundation, a British nonprofit that investigates and collects reports of child sexual abuse imagery, identified 1,286 A.I.-generated videos of child sexual abuse so far this year globally, compared with just two in the first half of 2024.