Parents cannot fully protect children online from predators, says Irish Internet Hotline chief
No amount of protection by parents can prevent their children from experimenting online and being targeted by online predators, according to the head of Ireland’s internet reporting centre.
Chief executive of the Irish Internet Hotline (IIH), Mick Moran, is warning that artificial intelligence (AI)-generated child sex abuse material is now becoming “normal”, with the risk that sexual activity with children will also itself become “normalised”, the Irish Examiner reports.
He was speaking as the Council of Europe issued a plea to member states to take action against the growth of AI-generated or altered images of child sexual abuse.
In a joint communique, the council’s Lanzarote committee and Cybercrime Convention Committee said: “Even when no ‘real child’ is depicted, perpetrators use AI-generated child sexual abuse material to groom children and ‘normalise’ sexual abuse.
"AI has significantly increased the realism and volume of such materials, exposing more...
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