17

Jan

2025

Spread of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery a ‘real concern’

  • External Article
  • ai-generated csam
  • child sexual abuse material (csam)
  • child sexual exploitation
  • cybercrime
  • digital child exploitation
  • Ōtautahi | Christchurch
  • the press

Chief Customs officer CEOT Simon Peterson said that not only did the Christchurch man jailed for three years and six months following a Customs investigation have images and videos of distressing sexual abuse of real children, he also had hyper-realistic computer-generated videos of children being abused.

The spread of computer-generated and AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery is of real concern.