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niyad

(132,508 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 01:30 PM Feb 22

ONE THOUSAND PEDOPHILES A MONTH ARRESTED IN UK.

1,000 per MONTH., per an article in The Guardian this morning. I had to read the headline three times. The article is horrific.

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ONE THOUSAND PEDOPHILES A MONTH ARRESTED IN UK. (Original Post) niyad Feb 22 OP
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/17/police-arresting-1000-paedophile-suspects-a-month-across-uk Goonch Feb 22 #1
Thank you. niyad Feb 22 #2
how about use that stupid ai for something useful? mopinko Feb 22 #3
Exactly. niyad Feb 22 #4
Scary: LoisB Feb 22 #5

mopinko

(73,732 posts)
3. how about use that stupid ai for something useful?
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 02:03 PM
Feb 22
Jones said images already circulating, which represent the majority of such abuse, could be identified by tech companies and taken down. “They could stop a lot more. So if you have an unencrypted environment where AI is used to detect known images, that is the low-hanging fruit that we should expect is no longer available on the open web, and that is something that we’ve talked about a lot for many, many years: that technology is available, it is detectable, it can be taken down. So we should no longer be finding known images.”

LoisB

(13,044 posts)
5. Scary:
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 03:14 PM
Feb 22

"If you go into an online forum and you’ve got a sexual interest in children, you’ll be told that you are normal".
"Normal"!?! What is wrong with some people?

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