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Spain Moves to Protect Kids From 'Digital Wild West'

Country goes after AI-generated child sexual-abuse content on social media, including X, Meta, TikTok

(Newser) - Spain just dialed up Europe's clash with Big Tech, asking prosecutors to probe X, Meta, and TikTok over suspected AI-generated child sexual-abuse imagery on their platforms. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez accused the companies of harming children's "mental health, dignity, and rights" and said their "impunity" must...

Cops: Missing Coach Is Wanted on Child Porn Charges

Travis Turner is 'now considered a fugitive,' per Virginia State Police

(Newser) - A high school football coach in Virginia who vanished as his undefeated team made its way into the state playoffs is now officially a man on the run. According to a statement by Virginia State Police rep Robin Lawson cited by NBC News , 46-year-old Travis Turner is wanted "on...

Cops: Sex Offender Faked Death, Enrolled in College

Anthony Lennon, one of Oklahoma's most wanted, arrested in NY after 13 years on the lam

(Newser) - A convicted sex offender from Oklahoma who vanished more than a decade ago by staging his own bloody death was discovered living under a new identity and attending college in upstate New York, authorities say. Anthony Lennon, 44, was one of Oklahoma's "Ten Most Wanted" before his arrest...

France Threatens to Boot Shein Over Childlike Sex Dolls

More controversy ahead of Paris store's opening as France spots online offerings

(Newser) - French authorities have warned they may block access to Shein after it emerged that the online fast fashion giant had been selling sex dolls with a childlike appearance. France's consumer watchdog, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs, and Fraud Control, said last week it had discovered the dolls...

Now-Grown 'Nirvana Baby' Gets Some Bad News

Judge rules that Spencer Elden's claims of Nevermind cover being child porn are baseless

(Newser) - Nirvana can officially breathe easy—at least when it comes to their legendary album cover. A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit from Spencer Elden, the now-adult who was the naked baby at the center of the band's 1991 Nevermind cover, ruling that the image doesn't...

Child Sex-Abuse Survivor Makes Plea to Elon Musk

After BBC investigation, 'Zora' wants links to material scrubbed from X platform

(Newser) - A survivor of child sexual abuse is pleading with Elon Musk to remove links on X that lead to images of her abuse, revealing how illegal material continues to circulate on the social media platform that promises zero tolerance. The woman using the pseudonym Zora, who survived child sexual...

FBI: Elite Gymnastics Coach Abused, Filmed His Students

FBI arrests Sean Gardner, an ex-coach at a renowned academy in Iowa

(Newser) - The US gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions. Liang "Chow" Qiao, the owner of Chow's Gymnastics and...

Appeal Asks: Is Child Porn Created by AI Legal?

Prosecutors protest ruling protecting possession of AI-generated CSAM in one's own home

(Newser) - Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge's decision that private possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is protected under the Constitution, in a case that could have huge implications for the legal treatment of such content, which is increasing online. Steven Anderegg, 42, of Wisconsin faced "potentially...

Surgeon Accused of Abusing 299 Patients, Mostly Kids

Joël Le Scouarnec of France allegedly described himself as a lifelong pedophile

(Newser) - Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec took the stand on the first day of the largest child sexual abuse trial in French history on Monday, saying he would take responsibility for his crimes. The 74-year-old is charged with raping or sexually abusing 299 patients who were under anesthesia or recovering...

Pair Sentenced After Child Sex Abuse Files Fall Out of Walls

Father and son sentenced to lengthy prison terms following renovation at their former home

(Newser) - A father and son convicted of multiple child sex crimes after damning photographs and video tapes fell out of walls at their former property have been sentenced. Theodore Smith, 90, was sentenced to 100 years in prison last month after pleading no contest to 11 counts of committing forcible lewd...

Peeved Cruise Passengers Sue Over Hidden Cameras

Complaint filed after ex-worker's admitted voyeurism on Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas

(Newser) - A dozen Royal Caribbean passengers are suing the cruise line after a staffer was found guilty of installing hidden cameras in their rooms. CBS News reports that the law firm representing the 12 plaintiffs filed the complaint last week in Miami. "The fact that many of the victims we...

BBC Host Won't Go to Prison Over Child Sex Abuse Photos

Huw Edwards gets 6-month suspended sentence, must stay on sex offender registry for 7 years

(Newser) - Huw Edwards, "one of the most recognized faces in British television news," won't be spending time behind bars on charges involving child sex abuse material. The BBC reports that its former BBC News presenter was handed a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years, meaning he won'...

Famed BBC Journalist Admits Having Indecent Photos of Kids

Huw Edwards, facing up to a decade in prison, to be sentenced Sept. 16

(Newser) - Famed journalist Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to making indecent photos of children. The 62-year-old former BBC presenter admitted to all three counts against him Wednesday after he was swarmed upon arrival at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court. Prosecutors said he received 41 images and videos from an adult male...

Supreme Court Delivers Bad News to Josh Duggar

Justices reject his appeal on his child pornography charges

(Newser) - It's been a busy day for news out of the Supreme Court, with the biggest development being the justices' decision to take up whether states can restrict transgender medical treatments for minors. Also, via the AP:
  • Josh Duggar: The court rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality-television
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Ad Featuring Young Girl Shown to Sex Offenders on Instagram

Meta disputes 'New York Times' test as a 'manufactured experience'

(Newser) - Instagram's algorithms are putting innocent photos of children in front of men with pedophilic tendencies, the New York Times reports, offering data from its own tests as evidence. The outlet began investigating after a maker of children's jewelry who paid to advertise her products to a mostly female...

Child Sex Abuse Tip Line May Soon Be Flooded by AI

New Stanford report issues warning on longtime 'enormously valuable' service

(Newser) - A tip line set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation needs technological and other improvements to help law enforcement rescue victims and go after abusers, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory has found. The fixes to what the researchers describe as an "enormously valuable"...

To Dodge Charges, He Fled US, Joined Russian Military

Wilmer Puello-Mota left the US days before trial in January

(Newser) - A former city councilor and member of the Massachusetts National Guard who fled the country in January, days before he was to be tried for child pornography in Rhode Island, has apparently defected to Russia and joined the military. Wilmer Puello-Mota, a former city councilor in Holyoke, Mass., was first...

Ex-CIA Worker Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison

Joshua Schulte was found guilty of espionage, possession of child sexual abuse material

(Newser) - The man behind the biggest data breach in CIA history is going to spend decades in prison after being convicted of crimes including espionage and possession of child sexual abuse images and videos. Joshua Schulte was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Thursday, more than five years after he...

AI Image Generators Were Trained on Child Porn
AI Image Generators
Were Trained on Child Porn
NEW REPORT
Dec 25, 2023 2:50 PM CST

AI Image Generators Were Trained on Child Porn

That training helps systems produce more explicit imagery of children, though fake

(Newser) - Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce...

Travis King's Mom Addresses His Alleged Child Porn

Claudine Gates says her 'good boy' lost phone, leaving his Snapchat account vulnerable

(Newser) - The parents of Travis King plan to fight the charges against him "hard," they tell ABC News in an interview. Upon the Army private's release from a South Korean detention facility, where he was held for 47 days after allegedly assaulting a person at a nightclub, he...

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