“The volume of self-made sexual material now constitutes a significant and growing proportion of online child pornography,” and is “set to proliferate further in the near future,” the Hague-based agency stressed in a report.

Even in cases where the content is entirely artificial and no real victims are depicted, AI-generated child pornography still contributes to the objectification and sexualization of children, Europol stressed.

The use of AI to generate or modify child pornography also increases “the amount of illicit material in circulation and complicates the identification of victims as well as perpetrators”... Source