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Child Disney star 'broke down in tears' after criminal used AI to make sex abuse images of her

Sky News has been granted access to a cyber crime operation in California, where a growing trend is emerging of AI being used by criminals to "fuel" child abuse obsessions. The technology has even been used by children to target their fellow classmates.

A Disney Channel child star has told Sky News that she "broke down in tears" after learning a criminal had used artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexual abuse images using her face. Kaylin has starred for several seasons in the Disney Channel TV series, Just Roll With It, and was victimised alongside other child actors. Sky News was granted rare access to the nerve centre for the Ventura County cyber crimes investigations team.

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