AI is about to make the online child sex abuse problem much worse

But just 5 to 8 percent of those reports ever lead to arrests, the report said, due to a shortage of funding and resources, legal constraints, and a cascade of shortcomings in the process for reporting, prioritizing and investigating them. If those limitations aren't addressed soon, the authors warn, the system could become unworkable as the latest AI image generators unleash a deluge of sexual imagery of virtual children that is increasingly "indistinguishable from real photos of children."