How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It?
61.8 million files of suspected child abuse were reported in 2025 alone. This is how machines detect them at internet scale — without any human ever seeing the content.
How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It? Font Size A Small A Medium A Large Theme Light Sepia Dark I 61.8 Million Files. One Year. Child Sexual Abuse Material — known as CSAM — is any image or video depicting the sexual abuse or exploitation of a child. It is not abstract. Every file is a record of a real crime against a real child. And when that file is shared, the child is victimized again. In 2025, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received 21.3 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation. Those reports contained 61.8 million images, vide
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