![]() ![]() ![]() It could mean, ultimately, that children are spared horrific sexual abuse, rape, and torture.” If we can tackle the demand for this material, it could stop some of these videos from being made in the first place. ![]() “We remove millions of images and videos of children suffering the worst kinds of abuse every year, but we know this is a battle that needs to be fought on two fronts. “It has the potential to be a game-changing way to intervene on people who may be about to set off on a dangerous path online. Susie Hargreaves OBE, Chief Executive of the IWF, said: “This chatbot really will be a remarkable tool in helping us tackle the growing problem of online child sexual abuse material. In March, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed it believes there are a minimum of 300,000 individuals in the UK posing a sexual threat to children, either through physical “contact” abuse or online. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs the Stop It Now! UK & Ireland helpline as well as deterrence campaigns and intervention programs to prevent child sexual abuse, including the Stop It Now! Get Help website which provides self-help for people viewing child sexual abuse material and receives 15,000 visitors a month. The chatbot is planned to be fully working and rolled out by the end of 2022. “It has the potential to be a game-changing way to intervene on people who may be about to set off on a dangerous path online." The IWF can engage with them, alert them to behaviour that is illegal online and inform them that help is available for them to control their inappropriate sexual behaviour. The aim is for our chatbot to “target” these users at that moment, before they actually commit a criminal offence. It will attempt to engage users in a friendly and supportive conversation and at the right time, signpost and refer them to the IWF’s partner organisation, The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which could help them change and control their behaviour. The new reThink Chatbot will engage with internet users who are showing signs that they might be looking for images of child sexual abuse. The Internet Watch Foundation is the UK charity responsible for finding and removing images and videos of children suffering sexual abuse from the internet. Today (October 14) the End Violence Fund will announce the funding grant for the new Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reThink chatbot which the charity has been developing. A “game-changing” new interactive chatbot will interrupt people trying to access online child sexual abuse material to get them to change their ways. ![]()
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