For the first time, a new law makes it a federal crime not only to post sexually explicit images online without consent, but also ones generated by artificial intelligence.

For the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children , that's key to confronting an exploding problem.

The center’s CyberTipline -- for reports of all kinds of online child sexual abuse -- saw a jaw-dropping 1,325% increase in ones involving generative AI last year. The number jumped from 4,700 reports in 2023 to 67,000 last year.

“This is a tremendous start, the first bill to acknowledge the harms that AI can do when it's in the hands of offenders who want to exploit and abuse children,” said Yiota Souras, the center’s chief legal officer. “So it’s a tremendous step to have a federal law that is acknowledg

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