The Internet Watch Foundation has documented a 260-fold increase in AI-generated child sexual abuse material between 2024 and 2025, with confirmed reports rising from 13 videos to 3,443—a 26,385 per cent escalation in a single year. Separate research from Thorn indicates that one in eight teenagers now personally know a victim of AI-generated deepfake imagery, with school photographs identified as readily weaponised source material that can be converted into child sexual abuse content within minutes using widely accessible generative AI tools.
Guardii's anti-CSAM detection module—which explicitly covers AI-generated and deepfake material—is engineered to intercept this specific harm at the distribution and solicitation layer, monitoring children's direct messages in real time across Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Roblox and other platforms to identify and block attempts to share or request such content before wider circulation occurs. As a world-leading AI online-safety platform, Meta Business Partner and Startmate-backed technology, Guardii addresses the operational crisis this research exposes: where the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children receives tens of millions of CSAM reports annually and AI-generated material dramatically compounds that burden, Guardii's real-time detection preserves evidence for law enforcement while flagging distribution attempts at the point of first contact, delivering the targeted interception capability that overwhelmed reporting infrastructures and platform-level content moderation cannot provide at scale.
