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UNICEF issued an urgent call Wednesday for governments to criminalize AI-generated child sexual abuse material, citing alarming evidence that at least 1.2 million children worldwide had their images manipulated into sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year. The figures, revealed in Disrupting Harm Phase 2, a research project led by UNICEF's Office of Strategy and Evidence Innocenti, ECPAT International, and INTERPOL, show in some nations the figure represents one in 25 children, the equivale...