Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves

The Report Remove service said it had received 420 reports from children so far this year. The Report Remove service said it had received 420 reports from children so far this year. Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or'nudified' content easier to produce Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce. The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or "faked" in some way, including with AI and nudification tools. In the first six months of this year it received 420 reports from children of images of themselves that they believed had been faked or manipulated to appear explicit.