ParentSafetyGuide

SG-CSAM

AI-generated or synthetic CSAM is abusive material created or altered with software rather than a camera; it is treated as illegal in a growing number of jurisdictions. For parents, the key point is that such content is never harmless and should be reported, not shared; see the official source below.

Official source: iwf.org.uk →

The term separates two things that public debate often merges: how the material was produced, and what it depicts. A category defined by its production method does not by itself settle the legal question, which the summary above already notes is not uniform across countries.

No jurisdiction and no threshold is named on this page. What is unlawful where, and under which statute, is not established by the research cited here.

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Sources

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  1. iwf.org.ukverified · 2026-06-27