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    Predators active on the dark web are increasingly using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of children, fixating especially on “star” victims, child safety experts warn.

    “The communities of people who trade this material get infatuated with individual children,” said Sarah Gardner, chief executive officer of the Heat Initiative, a Los Angeles non-profit focused on child protection.

    The Guardian reviewed chatroom threads on the dark web discussing desires for predators who are proficient in AI to create child abuse images of celebrities, including teen idols from the 1990s who are now adults.

    “As soon as these things were open sourced, that’s when the production of AI generative CSAM exploded,” said Dan Sexton, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based non-profit that focuses on preventing online child abuse.

    “Images show the rape of babies and toddlers; famous pre-teen children being sexually abused; BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism); content featuring tweens and teenagers, and more,” the report states.

    On May 20, the US Department of Justice announced the arrest of a 42-year-old man in Wisconsin on criminal charges related to his alleged production, distribution and possession of more than 10,000 AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.


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