South Korea Expands AI Monitoring to Combat Online Child Abuse
(MENAFN) South Korea has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) system to identify and help remove online child sexual abuse material, raising the average daily detection rate to nearly ten times its previous level, the Gender Equality and Family Ministry announced Tuesday.
The National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response launched the AI-based technology in April as part of efforts to address increasingly sophisticated forms of digital sexual crime.
From April through September, the system detected 96,210 instances of child sexual abuse material and triggered notifications requesting their removal from online platforms.
The average number of daily detections reached 202.1 per monitoring employee, compared with 20.8 recorded last year.
Operating around the clock, the technology scans social media platforms and random chat applications to identify potentially illegal material. Suspected content is then referred to human reviewers before requests are sent to platforms for its removal.
The ministry intends to increase the system's coverage to 139 online platforms next year, compared with 74 this year. It also plans to enhance detection precision by providing the AI system with further training.
Established in 2018, the center provided assistance to 10,637 people last year, including 3,052 victims below the age of 20.
Separately, South Korean police detained 3,557 suspects in online sexual abuse investigations between November 2024 and October 2025. Teenagers represented nearly half of those detained, while offenses involving deepfake technology accounted for 35.2% of the cases.
The National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response launched the AI-based technology in April as part of efforts to address increasingly sophisticated forms of digital sexual crime.
From April through September, the system detected 96,210 instances of child sexual abuse material and triggered notifications requesting their removal from online platforms.
The average number of daily detections reached 202.1 per monitoring employee, compared with 20.8 recorded last year.
Operating around the clock, the technology scans social media platforms and random chat applications to identify potentially illegal material. Suspected content is then referred to human reviewers before requests are sent to platforms for its removal.
The ministry intends to increase the system's coverage to 139 online platforms next year, compared with 74 this year. It also plans to enhance detection precision by providing the AI system with further training.
Established in 2018, the center provided assistance to 10,637 people last year, including 3,052 victims below the age of 20.
Separately, South Korean police detained 3,557 suspects in online sexual abuse investigations between November 2024 and October 2025. Teenagers represented nearly half of those detained, while offenses involving deepfake technology accounted for 35.2% of the cases.
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