Misuse and incidents

FBI reports rise in AI-manipulated sextortion images

The FBI said victims, including minors, increasingly reported benign photos or videos being manipulated into realistic explicit content and used for harassment or sextortion.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM53confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

Federal victim reports showed realized synthetic-media abuse against adults and children, with improving accessibility and realism enabling coercion without requiring an authentic explicit image.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 53 · confidence 94

    New June 2023 authoritative evidence of realized deepfake sextortion misuse.

    12 Aug 2026