How Artificial Intelligence Can Stop Sex Trafficking -- NOVA Next PBS

For Matt Osborne, finding exploited children typically starts with a walk on the beach, and it ends with hands cuffed behind his back. It's almost always the same--Osborne and a few friends travel somewhere that's known for sex tourism and walk along the beach or hang in area nightclubs, not to look for girls but to be seen themselves. A group of white American men is easy to spot in heavily-touristed resort towns in Asia, Central America, and South America, so it doesn't take long to make a connection. "They approach us," Osborne says. "At first, everything is innocuous. Want to go jet ski or parasailing? Buy a margarita or beer? They offer us drugs, and the conversation always turns to girls. And if you let them talk long enough and say, 'What else do you have? What else do you have?' Then sooner or later, they always offer us young girls."