From WMUR News 9
Law enforcement officials raise growing concerns over AI-generated images exploiting children
By Tim Callery
Law enforcement officials in New Hampshire are warning about a disturbing use of artificial intelligence: using generative AI to exploit children.
Local and state police say they are seeing AI used in more cases they are investigating...
“This is an awful, awful, dark, dark application of generative AI and deepfakes that is deeply disturbing and, sadly, predictable,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California Berkeley who specializes in the analysis of digital images. “We have the ability now for anybody, anybody, to create manipulated media.”
He said the use of generative AI is making the problem of child sex abuse images worse.
“Ten years ago, you could create what we then called computer-generated child sexual abuse material, but it was hard. It was time-consuming, and you needed skill,” Farid said. “Now you go to some shady website, and you type, and you get image after image after image. And suddenly, we went from a few images a year to thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of images...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
