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AI images of child sexual abuse getting ‘significantly more realistic’, says watchdog

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The Internet Watch Foundation said advances in AI are being reflected in illegal content.

It received 245 reports of AI -generated child sexual abuse imagery that broke UK law in 2024 .

The largest proportion of those images was category A’ material, the term for the most extreme type of abuse content that includes penetrative sexual activity or sadism.

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