DeepfakeCritical
Child Predators Are Reportedly Generating Deepfake Nudes of Children to Extort Them
- Occurred
- Apr 23, 2024
- Published
- Apr 23, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported that it has found a manual on the dark web that encourages criminals to use "nudifying" AI tools to depict children naked in order to extort victims into providing graphic content.
Developers
- Unknown AI developers
- Deepfake creators
Deployers
- Unknown Dark Web users
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Minors
Tags
- Nudify
- Nudification
- Child Abuse
- IWF
- Internet Watch Foundation
- Dark Web
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: Deepfake technology used to create child sexual abuse material for extortion constitutes life-threatening harm to minors.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8