AI Deepfakes May Overwhelm The National Missing & Exploited Children Cyber Tipline

The Cyber Tipline maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a centralized system for reporting online child exploitation that may be overwhelmed by deepfake images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) created by artificial intelligence (AI), according to an analysis by the Stanford Internet Observatory. When online platforms in the United States become aware of CSAM, they are required to report it to the Cyber Tipline. NCMEC then attempts to identify the location of the users who sent and received the content, and may try to locate the victim. The reports are sent to domestic . . .