{"id":1235886,"date":"2025-02-28T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235886"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:45:46","slug":"europol-arrests-25-users-of-online-network-accused-of-sharing-ai-csam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235886","title":{"rendered":"Europol arrests 25 users of online network accused of sharing AI CSAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe is cracking down on AI-generated sex images of minors. So far, Europol has arrested 25 people in a large-scale ongoing probe called Operation Cumberland and confirmed that more arrests are expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/media-press\/newsroom\/news\/25-arrested-in-global-hit-against-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material\">press release<\/a>, Europol said that the 24 arrests occurred simultaneously on February 26 after Danish law enforcement arrested a main suspect in November. That suspect is accused of running &#8220;an online platform where he distributed the AI-generated material he produced&#8221; for others willing to pay to &#8220;watch children being abused,&#8221; Europol alleged. The network was hidden from casual lurkers and required a &#8220;symbolic payment&#8221; to access, Europol said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While fully AI-generated images may not depict real kids, at least one <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2024\/08\/nonprofit-scrubs-illegal-content-from-controversial-ai-training-dataset\/\">AI model (now scrubbed) has been trained on actual CSAM<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2024\/07\/ai-trains-on-kids-photos-even-when-parents-use-strict-privacy-settings\/\">images of real kids<\/a>, so child safety experts fear outputs could potentially depict or resemble a known victim or actual child. And there&#8217;s growing consensus globally that, in general, AI-generated CSAM harms kids by normalizing child sex abuse through the increased prevalence of CSAM online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/25-arrested-so-far-for-sharing-ai-sex-images-of-minors-in-largest-eu-crackdown\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/25-arrested-so-far-for-sharing-ai-sex-images-of-minors-in-largest-eu-crackdown\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is cracking down on AI-generated sex images of minors. So far, Europol has arrested 25 people in a large-scale ongoing probe called Operation Cumberland and confirmed that more arrests are expected in the coming weeks. In a press release, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}