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The nudity is fake. The sextortion is real.
Stopping the spread of these apps is not easy. Riana Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, described efforts to…
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New Research Paper on Federal AI-CSAM Prosecutions
Together with Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that someho…
Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been misused b…
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Pfefferkorn interviewed in Screenagers documentary on student-on-student use of nudify apps
Screenagers: Generation AI explores what can be done to mitigate the risks artificial intelligence poses to young people's learning, relationships, and ment…
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Judge asks Supreme Court to reconsider laws about AI generated CSAM
Riana Pfefferkorn, Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, was interviewed on KTVU to discuss the Seventh Circuit's recent ruling abo…
The Hidden Trade-Offs of Fighting Child Abuse Online
Computing professionals have developed a number of aphorisms over the decades. Do not roll your own cryptography; it is always DNS; time zones are hard; names a…
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More teens are using generative AI to make explicit content. What parents should know about it
Even though regulations apply to what’s allowed in app stores, these apps can sometimes slip through by not advertising the full range of their capabilities, sa…
Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports
Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act…
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Deepfake Nudes in Schools: When AI-Enabled Abuse Hits the Classroom
AI-powered “nudify” apps are increasingly being used by students to create deepfake sexual images of classmates, but most schools still do not have clear polici…
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The AI child exploitation crisis is here
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever for bad actors to create child sexual abuse material, leaving prosecutors and lawm…
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Comment to the U.S. Sentencing Commission on TAKE IT DOWN Act Guideline Proposal
I submitted a comment to the United States Sentencing Commission on its proposal to amend the federal sentencing guidelines in light of a new federal law, the T…
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Musk's Grok AI faces more scrutiny after generating sexual deepfake images
Elon Musk was forced to put restrictions on X and its AI chatbot, Grok, after its image generator sparked outrage around the world. Grok created non-consensual…