Child catfishing victim and adult perpetrator identified by gardaí using AI

Generative AI will be of most benefit to the gardaí in processing reams of data.

Gardaí used AI to identify a young girl catfished by a 41 year-old man in order to get her to send him sexualised images.

Detective Sergeant Paul Johnstone, of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau (GNCCB) told the DPP’s annual prosecutors' conference at the Convention Centre in Dublin that gardaí were able to use an image of the victim's school crest from her uniform to run a search on Interpol's child sexual exploitation database (ICSE) and got a match to identify the school, the victim, and the suspect.