Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves
8 August 2026 at 08:00
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Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce.
The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or βfakedβ in some way, including with AI and nudification tools.
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Β© Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

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