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The Link Between Explicit AI-Generated Images and Offline Crime

Siddharth Bhattacharya, Yun Young Hur, and Gal Oestreicher-SingerJuly 29, 2026Reading Time: 7 min

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An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management.

The online revolution enabled frictionless access to virtually every type of content — including adult content. Generative AI has added a whole new, and potentially more dangerous, dimension to the boom in explicit content. In the absence of strong safeguards, AI users can transition from consumers to creators of their own explicit...

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