Hay – Global Company has led to at least 25 arrests for the content of sexual abuse of children obtained by artificial intelligence and distributed online, Said Europol Friday.
'Cumberland operation was one of the first cases associated with Sexual cruel treatment of a child generated by children The material that makes it extremely difficult for investigators due to the lack of national legislation concerning these crimes, “the statement of the European Police Agency based on the Hague is said.
Most of the arrests were done on Wednesday during the World Operation headed by the Danish police, as well as law enforcement agencies from the EU, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. According to Europol, US law enforcement agencies did not participate in the operation.
Then the arrest was arrested last November, the main suspect in the case, the national Danish, which ruled the Internet platform where he distributed AI material, which he created.
After “symbolic payment on the Internet, users from around the world were able to get a password to access the platform and observation of children,” said Europol.
The agency warned that sexual exploitation of childhood sexual exploitation remains one of the most threatening manifestations of cybercrime in the European Union.
He “continues to remain one of the main priorities for law enforcement agencies that are constantly growing in the amount of illegal content,” the more arrests are expected when the investigation continued.
While Europol said Cumberland's operation sent to the platform, and the people who share the content are fully created with AI, also there was an alarming distribution of AI-manipulated images on the Internet, which often uses real-life images, including children, and can have a destructive impact on their lives.
According to A a AR report In December CBS News' Jim Axelrod, who was focused on one girl who was aimed at such abuse of a classmate, in 2023 there were more than 21,000 pornographic shots Deepfake online, increasing more than 460% a year before. A Manipulated content It has grown on the Internet as legislators in the US and elsewhere to catch up with new legislation to solve the problem.
Just a few weeks ago, the Senate adopted a two -party bill called “Remove his act” This, if signed by the law, will criminalize “publication of unheonantly intimate images (NCII), including AI-generalized NCII (or” Deepfake pornography of revenge “), and requires social media and similar sites to implement the procedure for removing such content over 48 hours because of the victim description On the US Senate website.
Currently, some social media platforms have not been able to or not wanting to remember the spread of sexual, deepfake's generated content, including fake pictures with the image of celebrities. In mid -February, the owner of Facebook and Instagram Meta said he had removed more than a dozen false sexized images of famous women's actors and athletes after CBS News Study Found The high prevalence of AI-manipulated Deepfake images on Facebook.
“This is a problem with the whole industry, and we are constantly working on improving the detection and execution technology,” Meta spokesman Erin Logan said in a statement sent by email at the time.