AI-generated child images 723/2026

FOI Reference: 723/2026

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information concerning recorded crimes involving AI-generated or AI manipulated sexual images of children.

Please search the free-text summary, modus operandi or occurrence-description fields of crimes recorded under offences concerning indecent or prohibited images of children for the following terms:

• “artificial intelligence”
• “AI-generated”
• “AI generated”
• “deepfake”
• “deep fake”
• “nudify”
• “nudified”
• “synthetic image”

For each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, and for the period 1 January to 27 July 2026, please provide:

1. The number of recorded crimes returned by this search. Please count any record containing more than one of the listed search terms only once.

2. For the ten most recently recorded cases returned by the search, please provide:

• The date the offence was recorded
• The recorded offence classification
• The investigation outcome
• The existing crime-summary, modus-operandi or occurrence-description text, with personal or identifying information redacted

Response

Please see attached for response: AI generated child images 723.26

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 07/08/2026)