Petaling Jaya, 26th May 2025 - Artificial Intelligence (Al)-generated deepfakes are driving a steep rise in synthetic Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and fuelling addictions to such content, particularly among minors.

Principal Assistant Director of Bukit Aman Sexual, Women and Child Investigation Division (D11), SAC Siti Kamsiah Hassan said, AI is increasingly being misused to generate hyper-realistic CSAM, including deepfake imagery, which is complicating detection and posing challenges for law enforcement in bringing those behind it to book.

She said offenders are also exploiting encrypted messaging applications and dark web forums to share CSAM and are communicating anonymously.

SAC Siti Kamsiah said such misuse has also led to a surge in sextortion cases, especially targeted at minors and through social media platforms.

“Many of these victims received threats that traumatised them severely and drove them to suicide. Our latest findings based on the cases under investigation show a rise in underage or teenage offenders who have developed an addiction to pornography. Many were found to have downloaded and stored CSAM in cloud storage or their email accounts,” she said in an interview recently.

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