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AI-Generated Child Abuse Videos Surge to 1,286 in Six Months

Regulators warn near-indistinguishable AI-made abuse videos carry the most severe Category A material.

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Overview

  • The Internet Watch Foundation verified 1,286 AI-generated child sexual abuse videos in the first half of 2025, compared with just two in the same period last year.
  • Approximately 78% of these videos were classified as Category A, depicting the most severe abuses including rape, sexual torture and bestiality.
  • Reports of web pages hosting AI-generated CSAM rose by 400% to 210 URLs in early 2025, with each page featuring hundreds of images and videos.
  • Analysts found perpetrators fine-tuned open-source AI models with real CSAM footage to create near-indistinguishable videos that challenge traditional detection methods.
  • Under UK law enacted in February, creation, possession or distribution of AI tools or manuals for producing CSAM is illegal and punishable by up to five years in prison.