A teenage boy sat on a school bus, casually opened his phone, selected a photo of a girl from social media and used an AI "nudifying" app to create a fake naked image of her. Horrifyingly, this is not an isolated incident – it is part of a rapidly escalating crisis that is targeting minors everywhere.
Children, some as young as 11 years old, are now being sexually exploited using easily accessible AI tools that allow anyone to create and distribute non-consensual sexual images of real people. These images often look frighteningly realistic.
Sign the petition to demand that internet and social media companies shut down these apps, block AI sexual abuse tools, and treat this crisis with the urgency it demands.
Across the UK, the US, Spain, Australia, and beyond, teachers are reporting deepfake pornographic images spreading through Snapchat, TikTok, WhatsApp, and private group chats. Girls are overwhelmingly targeted, but boys are victims too. This is not curiosity. It is not a prank. It is image-based sexual abuse of minors.
Experts estimate that 99% of sexually explicit deepfakes online target women and girls, and increasingly, those girls are under 18. Survivors describe the experience as deeply traumatic, like something being done to their body without consent, control, or escape. For children, the harm is profound and long-lasting.
Meanwhile, tech companies continue to allow the tools that enable this abuse to exist on their platforms. These explicit apps remain available in app stores. Social media platforms fail to detect or rapidly remove deepfake sexual content. Reporting systems are slow, confusing, and often retraumatizing, placing the burden on children to prove they were violated.
Tech companies already know how to act decisively when they choose to. They aggressively moderate terrorism, extremism, and known child sexual abuse material. AI-generated sexual abuse of minors must be treated with the same zero-tolerance urgency.
Sign now to demand immediate action to protect children from AI-enabled sexual abuse.
