‘Society needs to be alert’: Most people are unaware AI is being used to create child abuse content
Even though a majority of people are concerned about artificial intelligence (AI), roughly 70 per cent are unaware that it’s already being used to create child sexual abuse content, a new survey shows. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a UK-based child protection charity, surveyed over 2,500 people in the UK and around 88 per cent of people surveyed agreed that AI-generated sexual images of under-18s should be illegal. However, just 40 per cent of those surveyed either didn’t know it was the case or thought that this content was legal in the UK. In the EU and the UK, it is illegal to create, view...