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Understand key OCSEA harms, tactics, and online environments — from grooming and financial sextortion to AI-generated abuse, CSAM, and exploitation in gaming.
Also see our explainer: What is online child sexual exploitation and abuse?
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AI-generated child sexual exploitation
Generative AI can be misused to create, alter, or scale abusive sexual content involving children, and to support grooming, impersonation, or extortion.
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Financial sextortion of children
Children may be threatened or blackmailed for financial gain, often across multiple services, accounts, or communication channels.
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Online grooming & enticement
Grooming can begin through ordinary-seeming interactions and escalate into coercion, exploitation, or attempts to move a child into private spaces.
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Child sexual exploitation in online gaming
Gaming environments combine social interaction, private communication, user-generated content, and younger users, creating distinct child safety risks.
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Domain & infrastructure abuse
OCSEA risks are not limited to consumer-facing platforms. Domain and infrastructure providers can also help prevent, mitigate, and respond to abuse.
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Self-generated or coerced sexual imagery
Children may be pressured, manipulated, or coerced into creating sexual imagery that can later be shared, threatened, or reused.
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