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UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges

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The UK’s National Crime Agency and Internet Watch Foundation have warned parents not to publicly post children’s images, citing AI-generated abuse imagery. The IWF found 8,029 AI-generated abuse images and videos in 2025, up 14%, with AI abuse videos rocketing from 13 to 3,440 in a year. New joint guidance tells parents to lock down privacy settings and audit old posts.

Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity responsible for finding and removing child sexual abuse material online.

The IWF identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, a 14% riseon the year before. Video is where the growth is starkest, up from just 13 confirmed AI-generated abuse videos in 2024 to...

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