Protecting kids in the age of AI. From American public media this is marketplace

tech. I'm Lily Dromale. Before we start today's show, a warning, the following content may be disturbing to some listeners.

For years, child sexual abuse material was mostly distributed by male.

Authorities used investigative techniques to stem its spread.

That got a lot harder when the internet came along,

and AI has supercharged the problem,

says Child Safety Advocate and Tik-Tocker Tiana Sharifi.

Those 750,000 predators that are online at any given time

looking to connect with minors,

they just simply need to find a picture of a child

and use the AI to generate child sexual abuse materials and

superimpose these faces on something that isn't appropriate.

Victimizing celebrities to young kids. The nonprofit Thorn has designed new principles aimed at fighting child

sexual abuse. Rebecca Portnoff there says tech companies need to develop better

technology to detect AI generated images and commit not to use this material to train AI models.

We believe that for organizations that commit and then action on these principles that their technologies

will as a result be less capable of producing

AI-generated child sexual abuse material and other abuse material that the content that does get

created will be detected more reliably and the distribution of the

underlying models and services that are making this material will be limited.

So we see big social media companies like Meta signing on to these principles as well as search

engine giant Google. How big of a deal is it to see companies like that get involved?

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