Deepfake Abuse
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Deepfake abuse
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In the first half of 2026 the Internet Watch Foundation assessed 6,310 AI-generated still images that met the legal definition of child sexual abuse, about 40% above the more than 4,500 for all of 2025.
A legal study of Cirebon police handling describes offenders taking children's photos from social media and using AI apps to turn them into indecent images; police treat it as cybercrime and digital pornography.
Australia's eSafety Commissioner told a parliamentary inquiry that nudify apps are downloaded about 200,000 times a month, and new eSafety research found one in five children had potentially harmful AI chatbot or companion interactions.
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Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, told the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney that AI apps able to generate sexualised deepfakes are downloaded about 200,000 times a month by Australians. Her office has taken enforcement action against eight AI-powered nudify services.
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Austrian Green MEP Lena Schilling said she learned last month that altered images from one of her early press conferences had been manipulated by AI to remove her clothing and were circulating online.
The Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based group that monitors abuse material worldwide, reported that its analysts had assessed 6,310 AI-generated still images meeting the legal definition of child sexual abuse in the…
An AI-altered video using footage of Janhvi Kapoor and Jr NTR from the song Chuttamalle in the 2024 film Devara: Part 1 falsely showed Kapoor in sexually explicit and degrading circumstances.
A peer-reviewed article published October 2, 2026 describes how generative artificial intelligence is being used to create or manipulate sexually explicit images using children's likenesses, forming…
On 2026-10-03, Hindustan Times reported that an inappropriate AI-morphed video using footage of Jr NTR and Janhvi Kapoor from Devara: Part 1's song Chuttamalle went viral on social media, with actor…
This November 2025 scoping review in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse synthesized literature on deepfakes in gender-based violence.
By June 2026, researchers documented a cybercrime pattern in Cirebon where perpetrators obtained children's photographs from social media or other digital platforms and manipulated them using…
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