A town in southern Spain is in shock after it emerged that AI-generated naked images of young local girls had been circulating on social media without their knowledge.
Police are now investigating and according to reports, at least 11 local boys have been identified as having involvement in either the creation of the images or their circulation via the WhatsApp and Telegram apps.
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'Minutes after opening a Snapchat account pretending to be a 15-year-old girl, I'm amazed at what I see.
Drugs seem to be readily available - just a couple of clicks away. I thought this world was hidden and hard to access, but it is so easy to find.'
In today’s digital age, young people are increasingly vulnerable to online threats, and one such menace is sextortion. Sextortion is a cyber-enabled crime that exploits a young person’s trust and seeks to control them through the threat of public humiliation. It can happen to anyone, but it is particularly prevalent among teenagers and young adults.
When the minor was abducted by Roberts, she was not allowed to bring anything, though she did have her Nintendo Switch on hand.
The girl used the console to download games and watch YouTube, with a friend seeing her name pop up.
That friends' family alerted the police, and with the help of Nintendo, they were able to track down the girl once and for all.
The console manufacturer were able to to retrieve the console's IP address, allowing the FBI to locate the girl just 11 days after she went missing.
Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse material, the BBC has found.
Some are accessing the images by paying subscriptions to accounts on mainstream content-sharing sites such as Patreon.
The National Police Chief's Council said it was "outrageous" that some platforms were making "huge profits" but not taking "moral responsibility".
The makers of the abuse images are using AI software called Stable Diffusion, which was intended to generate images for use in art or graphic design.
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