Security News > 2020 > April > AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords
A team of 13 analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have used machine learning to help them figure out what secret code words are used by online communities of perverts to covertly talk about child sexual abuse images.
The IWF is a UK-based charity that every year removes tens of thousands of depraved images.
Up until a few weeks ago, the IWF's database of paedophile slang contained about 450 words and phrases used to refer to abuse images.
It's targeted on what the IWF already knows, scanning sites that the IWF has already identified as potentially having child sexual abuse material.
Implementation will take some time, but the hope is that eventually, it will lead to the discovery and eradication of more child sexual abuse imagery than is now uncovered by the existing technique of using a database of hashed images to stop existing, previously identified content from being uploaded.