Child Disney star 'broke down in tears' after criminal
used AI to make sex abuse images of her
Sky News has been granted access to a cyber crime operation in California, where a growing trend is emerging of AI being used by criminals to "fuel" child abuse obsessions. The technology has even been used by children to target their fellow classmates.
Monday 5 August 2024 15:17, UK
A Disney Channel child star has told Sky News that she "broke down in tears" after learning a criminal had used artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexual abuse images using her face.
Kaylin Hayman, who is 16 years old, returned home from school one day to a phone call from the FBI. An investigator told her that a man living thousands of miles away had sexually violated her without her knowledge.
Kaylin's face, the investigator said, had been superimposed on images of adults performing sexual acts.
"I broke down in tears when I heard," Kaylin says. "It feels like such an invasion of my privacy. It doesn't feel real that someone I don't know could see me in such a manner."
Kaylin has starred for several seasons in the Disney Channel TV series, Just Roll With It, and was victimised alongside other child actors.
"My innocence was just stripped away from me in that moment," she adds. "In those images, I was a 12-year-old girl and so it was heartbreaking, to say the least. I felt so lonely because I didn't know this was actually a crime that was going on in the world."
But Kaylin's experience is far from unique. There were 4,700 reports of images or videos of the sexual exploitation of children made by generative AI last year, according to figures from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the US.
AI is a relatively new technology that is getting easier and easier to manipulate. 4700 reports last year will explode into tens of thousands this year or next. Sin is progressive!
AI-generated child sex abuse images are now so realistic that police experts are compelled to spend countless, disturbing hours discerning which of these images are computer simulated and which contain real, live victims.
That is the job of investigators like Terry Dobrosky, a specialist in cyber crimes in Ventura County, California.
"The material that's being produced by AI now is so lifelike it's disturbing," he says. "Someone may be able to claim in court, 'oh, I believed that that was actually AI-generated. I didn't think it was a real child and therefore I'm not guilty.' It's eroding our actual laws as they stand now, which is deeply alarming."
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Predators are exploiting kids there
OnlyFans says it vets every user and all content to keep children off its porn-driven platform. But a Reuters investigation of U.S. police and court files found complaints that hundreds of sexually explicit videos and images of minors – from toddlers to teens – appeared on the website. "Watch me get super wild," reads one post cited by authorities featuring a 16-year-old.
By LINDA SO, ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL and JASON SZEP Filed July 2, 2024, 10 a.m. GMT
When a 16-year-old girl from Florida went missing in April 2023, her parents searched her phone, desperate for clues. What they found shocked them: For months, she’d sent nude photos and videos of herself to a man they now feared had abducted her.
“Some guy just flew in from New Jersey,” her bewildered father told a 911 dispatcher after reading her messages. “There’s some kind of sexual business and explicit photos… Something bad like that.”
The next day, sheriff’s deputies found the girl, partially naked, in a rented house with the man, according to police records. An investigation revealed he had posted dozens of sexual videos and images of the girl on OnlyFans, a booming online marketplace for homemade porn. One video, advertised for $20, showed the girl penetrating herself.
“Watch me get super wild,” read the caption. The man, Ethan Diaz, 22, was later charged with human trafficking and other offenses. He has pleaded not guilty.
OnlyFans makes reassuring promises to the public: It’s strictly adults-only, with sophisticated measures to monitor every user, vet all content and swiftly remove and report any child sexual abuse material. “We know the age and identity of everyone on our platform,” said CEO Keily Blair in a speech last year. “No children allowed, nobody under 18 on the platform.”
The Florida girl’s case, detailed in police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement, undercuts OnlyFans’ claims. And it’s not an isolated example.
Reuters documented 30 complaints in U.S. police and court records that child sexual abuse material appeared on the site between December 2019 and June 2024. The case files examined by the news organization cited more than 200 explicit videos and images of kids, including some adults having oral sex with toddlers. In one case, multiple videos of a minor remained on OnlyFans for more than a year, according to a child exploitation investigator who found them while assisting Reuters in its reporting and alerted authorities in June.
The impact on some victims was devastating. “After I found out about the video, I couldn’t go outside without being scared somebody saw my face,” a young man told a Massachusetts court after a film of his sexual encounter at age 15 with a volunteer football coach ended up for sale on OnlyFans.
Parents expressed disbelief and outrage. “There has to be accountability for these platforms,” the father of a 16-year-old boy from Kansas told Reuters. The family’s ordeal, he said, is “a wound that will never heal.”
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Of the 30 cases reviewed by Reuters, more than half resulted in an arrest
Having one child on the website should be enough to shut it down. But that's not going to happen until Jesus returns.
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