{"id":368483,"date":"2025-12-24T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368483\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:32:31","slug":"openais-child-exploitation-reports-increased-sharply-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368483\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a similar time period in 2024, according to a recent update<\/a> from the company. The NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other forms of child exploitation.<\/p>\n

Companies are required by law to report apparent child exploitation<\/a> to the CyberTipline. When a company sends a report, NCMEC reviews it and then forwards it to the appropriate law enforcement agency for investigation.<\/p>\n

Statistics related to NCMEC reports can be nuanced. Increased reports can sometimes indicate changes in a platform\u2019s automated moderation, or the criteria it uses to decide whether a report is necessary, rather than necessarily indicating an increase in nefarious activity.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the same piece of content can be the subject of multiple reports, and a single report can be about multiple pieces of content. Some platforms, including OpenAI, disclose the number of both the reports and the total pieces of content they were about for a more complete picture.<\/p>\n

OpenAI spokesperson Gaby Raila said in a statement that the company made investments toward the end of 2024 \u201cto increase [its] capacity to review and action reports in order to keep pace with current and future user growth.\u201d Raila also said that the time frame corresponds to \u201cthe introduction of more product surfaces that allowed image uploads and the growing popularity of our products, which contributed to the increase in reports.\u201d In August, Nick Turley, vice president and head of ChatGPT, announced<\/a> that the app had four times the amount of weekly active users than it did the year before.<\/p>\n

During the first half of 2025, the number of CyberTipline reports OpenAI sent was roughly the same as the amount of content OpenAI sent the reports about\u201475,027 compared to 74,559. In the first half of 2024, it sent 947 CyberTipline reports about 3,252 pieces of content. Both the number of reports and pieces of content the reports saw a marked increase between the two time periods.<\/p>\n

Content, in this context, could mean multiple things. OpenAI has said that it reports<\/a> all instances of CSAM, including uploads and requests, to NCMEC. Besides its ChatGPT app, which allows users to upload files\u2014including images\u2014and can generate text and images in response, OpenAI also offers access to its models via API access. The most recent NCMEC count wouldn\u2019t include any reports related to video-generation app Sora<\/a>, as its September release was after the time frame covered by the update.<\/p>\n

The spike in reports follows a similar pattern to what NCMEC has observed at the CyberTipline more broadly with the rise of generative AI. The center\u2019s analysis<\/a> of all CyberTipline data found that reports involving generative AI saw a 1,325 percent increase between 2023 and 2024. NCMEC has not yet released 2025 data, and while other large AI labs like Google<\/a> publish statistics about the NCMEC reports they\u2019ve made, they don\u2019t specify what percentage of those reports are AI-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,3070,199723,12756,5044,16570,16863,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-368483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-chatbots","14":"tag-content-moderation","15":"tag-kids","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}