Charity finds dark web forums sharing thousands of new abuse images made with bespoke AI software.
The Internet Watch Foundation said images of a well-known female singer reimagined as a child are being shared by predators.
The details come from the IWF's latest report into the growing problem, as it tries to raise awareness about the dangers of paedophiles using AI systems that can create images from simple text instructions. Analysts said there is a new trend of predators taking single photos of well-known child abuse victims and recreating many more of them in different sexual abuse settings.
Analysts saw images of mostly female singers and movie stars that had been de-aged using the imaging software to make them look like children.The charity said it was sharing the research to get the issue put onto the agenda at the UK government's AI Summit next week at Bletchley Park. More than one in five of these images were classified as Category A, the most serious kind of imageryAs well as this, 143 images depicted children aged three to six, while two images depicted babies .that predators were starting to explore the use of AI to make depraved images of children, but now the IWF says the fears are a reality.
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