The guidance gives step-by-step advice on how professionals should respond if children find themselves targeted and has been produced by the National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation.
It comes after authorities have seen a rise in the misuse of AI to replicate imagery of real, recognisable children.
Polling from the NCA has revealed that many professionals are not even aware that AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery is illegal.
The guidance makes it clear that AI child sexual abuse imagery “should be treated with the same level of care, urgency and safeguarding response as any other incidence involving child sexual abuse material” and aims to dispel any misconceptions that AI imagery causes less harm than real photographs or videos.
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