Paedophiles are using AI to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse images, report reveals

Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create life-like child sexual abuse images, it has been claimed. A shocking investigation has alleged that depictions of babies and toddlers being raped are among numerous images produced by abusers using Stable Diffusion. While the image generation software is intended to make artwork, the AI's use of word prompts allows for any desired image to be formed. The BBC claimed these are then being sold and traded on the Japanese site of Pixiv, with accounts often leading to more explicit content on the US-based Patreon. 'Since AI-generated images became possible, there has been this huge flood… it's not just very young girls, they're [paedophiles] talking about toddlers,' Journalist, Olivia Sheepshanks, told the publication. The new report come just a month after the AI platform Midjourney was also found to transform real photos of children into sexualised images.