Congress must stop a new AI tool used to exploit children
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Using AI to create pictures of child sex abuse is not a victimless crime. Behind every AI image, there are real children.
The national CyberTipline -- a reporting system for suspected online child exploitation -- received a staggering 32 million reports in 2022, up from 21 million just two years prior. That already disturbing figure is sure to grow with the rise of image-generating AI platforms.
AI platforms are "trained" on existing visual material. Sources used to create images of abuse may include real children's faces taken from social media, or photographs of real-life exploitation. Given the tens of millions of abusive images online, there is an almost inexhaustible amount of source material from which AI can generate even more harmful images.