Growing demand on the dark web for AI abuse images.

As mentioned several times in the past, artificial intelligence is not an inherently evil technology, the use one decides to make of it is what dictates its ethics. Nowadays, there are a variety of image generation services using this technology, and both the training of these models and their use tend to be controversial.

The Dark Web has never been a place for happy, or legal, encounters, and recent forums dedicated to the most degenerate and disgusting user desires underline the seriousness of the current situation. Unfortunately, there has been a rapid growth in the demand for artificially generated images depicting child sexual abuse.

The demand for such content is not a so-called ‘victimless crime’, these image generators have to use source material to be able to produce relevant results, which means that the perpetrators of the creation and distribution of such images possess an extensive catalogue of photographs depicting the act in question.