Cis says that illegal production of sexual content from minors with AI comes from “pairs or schoolmates, and are shared through groups of WhatsApp and sometimes published in Instagram Stories.”
The Safe Internet Center (CIS) admits the arrival of help requests Related to sexual imagery generated with artificial intelligence (AI), at a time when it is easier to entice minors for illegal sexual content.
To the Lusa Agency, the CIS points out that the illegal production of sexual content of minors with It comes from “pairs or schoolmatesand are shared through WhatsApp groups and sometimes published on Instagram ‘Stories’.
CIS states that this type of content has been amplified by AI that makes it possible to quickly create whole sites with different types of content.
“Currently, any image or video can be generated quickly, free and accessible to anyone, and anywhere. These contents may or may not be realistic, and may or may not include audio,” the center mentions.
Recently, a Watch Foudation Internet report (IWF) revealed that the Child sexual abuse generated with AI increased 400% In the first half of the year, 210 pages were detected online with this type of content.
In this sense, the CIS states that “There is, at least for the general public, a technology capable of effectively identifying if content has been artificially generated At the moment. As with other technologies throughout history, tools created for certain purposes are quickly used for malicious purposes, such as generating defamatory or intimate images. ”
O CIS explica que From the moment images of young people are available online, anyone can use them to generate artificial sexual material, Digitally manipulating the image, “becoming easier to create false identities to approach children and young people, facilitating enticing or obtaining illegal sexual content.”
In addition, “there are already numerous platforms whose sole purpose is to create intimate images of women, a reality that quickly extended to the sexual content of minors.”
Last week, Facebook an Italian group with almost 32,000 users in which photos of women were shared and commented on moments of intimacy, presumably without their permission after several complaints received. In this matter, the dangers undergo minors exposure, image manipulation, risk of enticing, blackmail and psychological damage, as well as fast and difficult circulation to control the various types of content.
The complaints that arrive at the CIS originate from the Internet Segura (Lis) line, operationalized by the Portuguese Association for the Victim Support (APAV), which “integrates an online illegal content denunciation service.
The CIS is coordinated by the National Cyberrseness Center (CNCs) and results from a consortium involving the DGE-Directorate-General for Education, IPDJ-Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth, the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), APAV and Microsoft Portugal.
