The IWF warned in June that AI-generated material was emerging online. Stability AI, the UK company behind Stable Diffusion, told the BBC it “prohibits any misuse for illegal or immoral purposes across our platforms, and our policies are clear that this includes CSAM”. Sexton said Stable Diffusion had been discussed in online offender communities. In June the BBC reported that Stable Diffusion, an open source AI image generator, was being used to create abuse images from text prompts typed in by humans. They are also concerned that the sheer potential volume of such imagery could make it more widely consumed. Law enforcement and child safety experts fear that photorealistic images of CSAM, which are illegal in the UK, will make it more difficult to identify and help real-life victims. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian The IWF searches for child sexual abuse material and coordinates its removal as well as operating a hotline for tip-offs. It’s been taught what child sexual abuse material is, and it’s been taught how to create it.” And that is a much harder problem to fix. He added: “The content that we’ve seen, we believe is actually being generated using open source software, which has been downloaded and run locally on people’s computers and then modified. They are sharing imagery, they’re sharing models. “There’s a technical community within the offender space, particularly dark web forums, where they are discussing this technology. Open source AI technology can be downloaded and adjusted by users, as opposed to closed model tools such as OpenAI’s Dall-E or Google’s Imagen whose underlying models – which underpin the creation of images – cannot be accessed or changed by members of the public.ĭan Sexton, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation, told the Guardian paedophile discussion forums on the dark web were discussing matters such as which open source models to use and how to achieve the most realistic images.
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