爱德华王子岛省皇家骑警表示，该省部分地区使用人工智能制作的儿童性虐待材料出现了“显著增加”。网络剥削专家表示，这种由人工智能生成的非法内容激增，可能会加剧对现实世界中儿童虐待的需求。
Prince Edward Island RCMP say there has been a "notable increase" in child sex abuse material made using artificial intelligence across parts of the province. Online exploitation specialists say this surge in illegal AI-generated content could be growing the demand for real-world child abuse.
互联网监督机构的报告显示，全球范围内由人工智能生成的儿童性虐待内容呈上升趋势，此类内容以往被称为儿童色情制品。
Internet watchdog reports indicate a trending global rise in AI-generated child sex abuse content, previously known as child pornography. In an email, P.E.I.
爱德华王子岛省皇家骑警高级通信顾问斯科特·费里斯在电子邮件中表示，保守估计，岛上皇家骑警目前调查的网络儿童虐待案件中，有三分之一涉及人工智能生成的材料。
RCMP senior communications adviser Scott Ferris said it’s a "safe estimate" that one third of Island RCMP online child abuse investigations now involve AI-generated material.
该估计仅涵盖皇家骑警管辖的地区，不包括夏洛特敦、萨默赛德和肯辛顿。大西洋省份各地都浮现出人工智能儿童剥削案件。
That estimate considers only areas under RCMP jurisdiction, which excludes Charlottetown, Summerside and Kensington. AI child exploitation cases are surfacing across the Atlantic region.
今年夏天在纽芬兰省圣约翰斯，一名17岁男孩被指控犯有近60项罪名，涉及制作和传播儿童性虐待材料。警方指控他使用人工智能工具修改了19名未成年人的影像并将其制成露骨内容。
In St. John’s, N.L., this summer, a 17-year-old boy was charged with nearly 60 counts related to the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material. Police allege he used AI tools to alter images of 19 minors and make them explicit. Const.
纽芬兰皇家警察局的警员斯蒂芬妮·迈尔斯向CBC新闻主持人克里西·霍尔姆斯表示，这起案件“很可能是我们首起、若非首起”专门涉及利用人工智能制作儿童性虐待材料的案件。什么是人工智能生成的儿童性虐待材料？
Stephanie Myers with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary told CBC News host Krissy Holmes the case is "probably one of our first if not the first" specifically involving AI being used to create child sexual exploitation material. What is AI-generated child sexual abuse material?
技术的发展彻底改变了儿童性虐待犯罪的实施方式。有了人工智能，犯罪分子不再需要与未成年受害者直接接触就能制作新的虐待内容。但这并不意味着这些是无被害人犯罪。
Technological developments have dramatically changed how child sex abuse crimes are committed. With AI, criminals no longer need to make direct contact with an underage victim to create new abusive content. But that doesn’t mean these are victimless crimes.
爱德华王子岛省加拿大皇家骑警网络虐童案中三分之一发现人工智能生成内容警方表示，在人工智能儿童性虐待图像调查中确认了19名受害者加拿大皇家骑警国家敏感和专业调查服务部门高级研究分析师莫兰·圣玛丽（Mauranne Ste-Marie）表示：“在许多案件中……生成人工智能内容要么是为了制作受害者家属或该违法者邻居儿童的材料。”
AI-generated material found in one-third of P.E.I. RCMP online child abuse cases Police say 19 victims identified in AI child sexual abuse image investigation "In many of the cases … AI-generated content is either produced to create material of a child that’s in the family or the neighbourhood of that offender," said Mauranne Ste-Marie, senior research analyst with the national RCMP’s sensitive and specialized investigative services unit.
“它增加了对这种材料的需求，使虐待行为正常化。”某些生成式人工智能模型——这些模型最终是通过真实人物的图像进行训练的——可以根据特定之人的肖像，或者从头生成一个不存在的合成儿童，来创建虐待性的图像或视频。
"It increases the demand for the material, it normalizes the abuse." Certain generative AI models — which are ultimately trained on images of real people — can create abusive images or videos either in the likeness of a specific person or by generating a non-existent, synthetic child from scratch.
一些违法者还使用人工智能驱动的“脱衣”工具来创建明确的“深度伪造”内容——即受害者的逼真虚假图像或视频。
Some offenders also use AI-powered "nudify" tools to create explicit "deepfakes" — realistic fake images or videos of a victim.
圣玛丽对加拿大广播公司新闻（CBC News）表示：“任何人都可以在网上截取照片……提取你孩子的面部，并用它制作非常直观的性虐待材料。”
"Anyone can take pictures that are posted online ... take the face of your children and create very graphic sexual abuse material with it," Ste-Marie told CBC News.
“对于能生产什么，几乎没有什么限制……如果他们的性趣偏好是金发蓝眼的年轻女孩，他们就不再需要花时间在网上搜寻这种偏好。他们可以直接创建它。”
“There are virtually no limits to what can be produced.... If their sexual preferences are for young girls with blond hair, blue eyes, they don’t need to spend time searching for that preference online anymore. They can simply create it."
ChatGPT、Gemini和Claude等主流生成式人工智能模型设有严格的防护措施，旨在阻止任何儿童虐待材料的生成。据称，确定的违规行为随后会被举报给执法部门。
Mainstream generative AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude have strict safeguards in place that are designed to block the generation of any child abuse material. Confirmed violations are supposedly then reported to law enforcement.
为了绕过这些控制，违法者经常依赖可免费获得的开源软件在离线状态下生成虐待性媒体，这种方式极难被检测到。
To circumvent these controls, offenders often rely on freely available open-source software to generate abusive media offline, where is it far harder to detect.
由于这些模型通常在没有互联网连接的情况下使用，警方可能极难追踪它们所产生的任何剥削性内容。
Since these models are typically used without an internet connection, any exploitative content they produce can be incredibly difficult for police to track.
圣玛丽警告称，以这种方式使用生成式人工智能模型可能会导致更多的现实世界虐待行为。“这是一个踏脚石，距离性虐待儿童更近了一步，”她说。
Ste-Marie warned using generative AI models this way could lead to more real-world abuse. "It is a stepping stone, it is one step closer to sexually abusing a child," she said.
“在观看了特定周数或月数的材料后，这些材料可能无法再满足他们的需求。”城勒索在一封电子邮件中，萨默赛德警方报告称，今年至少发生了一起嫌疑人在“城勒索”尝试中使用人工智能生成的儿童性虐待材料的事件。
"After viewing material for a certain number of weeks or months, it may not meet their needs anymore." Sextortion In an email, Summerside police reported at least one instance where a suspect used AI-generated child sex abuse material in a "sextortion" attempt this year.
城勒索是一种网络敲诈形式，犯罪分子通过威胁发布敏感图片或视频，强迫受害者发送金钱或不雅多媒体。
Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where offenders coerce victims into sending money or explicit media by threatening to release sensitive images or videos.
2023年4月，来自爱德华王子岛财富桥的17岁少年哈里·伯克在告诉父母自己成为城勒索骗局的受害者几小时后，悲惨地结束了自己的生命。
In April 2023, 17-year-old Harry Burke from Fortune Bridge, P.E.I., tragically took his own life hours after telling his parents he had been victimized by a sextortion scam.
加拿大儿童保护中心研究主任雅克·马尔库表示，人工智能生成或操纵的材料正越来越多地被用于城勒索尝试。他的机构运营着Cybertip.ca，这是加拿大用于报告网络虐待儿童事件的国家热线。
Jacques Marcoux, director of research for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said AI-generated or manipulated material is increasingly used in sextortion attempts. His organization operates Cybertip.ca, Canada’s national tip line for reporting online child abuse.
“如果无法诱骗儿童提供亲密照片，他们就会干脆用人工智能制作一张，”马尔库说，并指出犯罪分子随后会威胁在网上发布这些图片，声称它们是真的。
"In lieu of being able to trick the child into giving them an intimate image, they’ll simply create one using AI," Marcoux said, noting that offenders then threaten to release images online, claiming that they're real.
爱德华王子岛皇家骑警媒体关系警官加文·莫尔表示，去年在皇家骑警管辖的岛屿地区，有26起报告的城勒索事件。
P.E.I. RCMP media relations officer Gavin Moore said there were 26 reported instances of sextortion last year in Island areas under RCMP jurisdiction.
莫尔没有具体提及这些案件中的任何一起使用了人工智能生成的材料，但他确实指出，此类犯罪的报案率通常“非常低”。
Moore didn’t specifically reference AI-generated material in any of these cases, but he did note reporting rates are typically "very low" for this type of crime.
“这是受害者会感到极端尴尬的一种犯罪，”莫尔告诉加拿大广播公司新闻。
"This is a type of crime that victims are extremely embarrassed [about]," Moore told CBC News.
“（它）可能对受害者产生非常毁灭性和重大的影响。”马尔库表示，随着人工智能工具变得越来越复杂，分清什么是真的、什么是假的也变得越来越困难。
"[It] can have very devastating and significant effects on its victims." As AI tools become more sophisticated, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real and what’s not, said Marcoux.
“与三年前不同……在许多情况下，你无法辨别它是真是假。这几乎就像抛硬币一样，”马尔库说。但是，从法律的角度来看，这并不重要。
"Unlike three years ago … you can’t discern whether or not it’s real in many cases. It’s almost a coin flip," Marcoux said. But, from a legal standpoint, it doesn’t matter.
根据刑法，人工智能生成的儿童虐待内容与真实虐待素材受到的对待相同。通过文字提示词用人工智能修改或生成露骨的媒体内容，可能构成制作儿童性虐待素材。纽芬兰省圣约翰斯的警方今年夏天适用了这一标准。
Under the criminal code, AI-generated child abuse is treated the same as authentic abuse material. Altering or generating explicit media with AI through written prompts can constitute making child sexual abuse material. Police in St. John’s, N.L., applied that standard this summer.
这名17岁男孩被控58项刑事罪名，其中面临19项制作儿童性剥削素材的罪名，他涉嫌利用人工智能对十几岁女孩的照片进行数码修改。你能做些什么？
The 17-year-old boy, who was hit with 58 criminal charges, faces 19 counts of making child sexual exploitation material after allegedly using AI to digitally alter photos of teenage girls. What can you do?
由于违法者现在可以使用人工智能工具根据任何图像来创建虐待素材，圣-玛丽警告称，在网上发布儿童内容始终存在风险。
Since offenders can now use AI tools to create abusive material based on any image, Ste-Marie warns there is always a risk involved when posting children online.
她说：“每当你发布自己或孩子的照片或视频时，都有可能被别有用心的人利用。”她指出，其中一项建议是采取预防措施，例如在照片中遮挡孩子的面部。
"Every time you post a picture or a video of yourself or your children, there is a risk that it could be used by someone with bad intentions," she said, noting that one recommendation is to take precautions like covering a child's face in photos.
埃德蒙顿青少年被控使用人工智能制作同班同学的性剥削图像。第二段视频：两人因针对数十名加拿大女性的暴力、色情人工智能深度伪造内容而被起诉。“关于一个人的公开图像和信息越多，该模型就越容易创建出非常逼真的虚假或被操纵的内容，”圣-玛丽说。
Edmonton teens charged with using AI to create sexually exploitative images of classmates Video 2 charged over violent, sexual AI deepfakes of dozens of Canadian women "The more images and information that are publicly available about a person, the easier it is for that model to create very convincing fake or manipulated content," Ste-Marie said.
“因此，只要你减少这种可用性，就会使创建此类内容变得更加困难。” 尽管她表示人们可以降低沦为受害者的风险，但她强调，网络儿童虐待绝不是受害者的错。
"So, as soon as you reduce that availability, it makes it more difficult to create that type of content." Although she said people can reduce the risk of being victimized, she stressed that online child abuse is never the victim’s fault.
圣-玛丽说：“您的孩子绝不应对此类内容的产生负责，即使他们曾在网上发布过图像并觉得是自己的错，也绝不是他们的错。”
"Your child is never responsible for the creation of that type of content, even if they posted images online and they feel like it was their fault, it never is," Ste-Marie said.
“他们有权发布和分享，而不必担心有人会利用这些来对付他们。”
"They have the right to post and to share without thinking that someone will use it against them."