The Internet Watch Foundation identified almost 3,500 AI videos containing child sexual abuse material this year, compared with just 13 the year before.
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- The claim was made on 2026-01-20 but appears to refer to 2024 data (the most recent full year available at that time), not data from 2025.
- The specific figure of 13 videos in the previous year (2023) is based on IWF data but represents a very small baseline, making percentage increases appear more dramatic.
- The IWF Annual Data Insights Report 2024 provides this data, published after the reference period.
- The 260-fold increase represents a comparison between the first year of monitoring (2023) and the following year (2024).