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To help raise awareness of child exploitation, Nicolle has written to the Home Office to voice her strong support for proposed legislative changes to tackle new AI (artificial intelligence) child sexual abuse offences. In her letter to the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Nicolle has endorsed the new measures announced in the Crime and Policing Bill which seek to criminalise AI models that have been optimised to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Nicolle highlighted an ongoing case in South Derbyshire involving an offender found in possession of prohibited images of children on his computer that appeared to be generated by an AI software model. Such models are not currently illegal in the UK. Under proposals progressing through Parliament, a new criminal offence would be introduced criminalising AI models that have been optimised to create CSAM to ensure there are no safe spaces for offenders to network and facilitate child sexual abuse. Additionally, existing laws would be updated criminalising ‘paedophile manuals’ to cover Artificially Generated (AI) CSAM to reflect the evolving nature of online child sexual abuse. Read more, here: https://www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/news/pcc-nicolle-ndiweni-roberts-backs-proposed-new-laws-to-protect-children-from-online-predators/ | 
