Children are being invited to sexual parties in secret virtual rooms within the Roblox platform, leading Turkiye to ban the game for the protection of children and teenagers.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, police records in England and Wales have shown significant increases in rape, sexual assaults, and abuse incidents involving young children.

Child safety advocates and AI researchers have long warned about the potential misuse of generative AI, which could exacerbate the proliferation of child sexual abuse material.

Investigation Discovery’s latest docuseries, Quiet on Set, unveils the disturbing narrative of sexual assault and misconduct that occurred off-camera on several of Nickelodeon’s acclaimed series.

AI has the capacity to alter original imagery and videos into new forms of abuse material and transform innocuous images of children into sexualized depictions.