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AI Tools Create Over 1,200 Child Sexual Abuse Videos in First Half of 2025

Governments have made possession of AI abuse generators illegal with prison terms up to five years following a surge in near-indistinguishable synthetic child abuse videos

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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 to two in the same period last year.
  • Just over 1,000 of these videos were classified as Category A, the most severe classification covering rape, sexual torture and exploitation of real children.
  • URLs hosting AI CSAM rose 400% to 210 pages in the first half of 2025, with each site containing hundreds of synthetic images and videos.
  • Agencies report that perpetrators fine-tune open-source AI models with real child abuse material and share techniques on dark-web forums to evade detection.
  • Governments have banned AI CSAM generators and manuals with penalties up to five years in prison, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children logged 485,000 AI-related reports in the first half of 2025.