To anyone who thinks this is a sign the world is going to hell, don't worry, its always been hell! Nothing is really new here, its just a modern twist of distributing illegal perverse content. Ever since the internet was a thing and people could get pictures digitized its been out there.  It started on dial in BBS, then was (and still is) rampant on Usenet groups, then it was Kazaa and P2P apps, the the dark web/TOR, and now its on the clear net in "normie" land. It can exists here just due to how crazy cheap storage has gotten and there is so much data out there now stuff like this can hide in plain site.  Its a never ending cat and mouse game with the creeps and the police and international jurisdictional issues just further complicate it.  AI will help, but it also has major issues as shown by the guy Apple blew up over an innocent picture of his kid.<br><br>What worries me now though far more than it did in the pass is how easy it is for teenagers to create this content themselves with smartphones everywhere. It maybe intended for a boyfriend or just some form of self sexual exploration but this contents gets out of their phone so easily and can spread and live on the internet forever.  This can be from pictures syncing to the cloud they aren't even aware of happening, people borrowing their phone and dumping all pics discreetly to a cloud drive, malware, black mail, etc etc. It is more important than ever to teach your kids both the legal implications of taking these pictures as well as how the internet is forever. I also think IT security and personal safety using tech should be classes that start as early as elementary school and be required electives starting in middle school.