Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse material, the BBC has found.
Some are accessing the images by paying subscriptions to accounts on mainstream content-sharing sites such as Patreon.
Patreon said it had a “zero tolerance” policy about such imagery on its site.
The National Police Chief’s Council said it was “outrageous” that some platforms were making “huge profits” but not taking “moral responsibility”.
The makers of the abuse images are using AI software called Stable Diffusion, which was intended to generate images for use in art or graphic design.
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