Disaster is brewing on dark-web forums and in schools.
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A disaster is brewing on dark-web forums, in messaging apps, and in schools around the world: Generative AI is being used to create sexually explicit images and videos of children, likely thousands a day. “Perhaps millions of kids nationwide have been affected in some way by the emergence of this technology,” I reported this week, “either directly victimized themselves or made aware of other students who have been.”
Yesterday, the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology released the latest in a slew of reports documenting the crisis, finding that 15 percent of high schoolers reported hearing about an AI-generated image that depicted someone associated with their…