The UK's impending Online Safety Bill aims to hold social media platforms more responsible for the content published on their platforms - but it does not extend to AI companies whose models are being altered and used to generate abusive imagery.
Thousands of AI-generated images depicting child abuse have been shared on a dark web forum, new research has found. About 3,000 AI images of child abuse were shared on the site in September, with 564 depicting the most serious kind of imagery including rape, sexual torture and bestiality. Of the images, 1,372 depicted children aged between seven and 10 years old, according to research by the Internet Watch Foundation .
' The UK's impending Online Safety Bill is designed to hold social media platforms more responsible for the content published on their platforms. But it does not extend to the AI companies whose models are being altered and used to generate abusive imagery. The UK government is hosting an AI safety summit next week that aims to address the risks associated with artificial intelligence and consider what action is needed.
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