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EPISODE · Oct 15, 2025 · 4 MIN

Leela Ashford: Spark Sustainability Director on the company blocking all AI-generated child sexual abuse images

from Best of Business · host Newstalk ZB

Spark's becoming the first New Zealand telco to block all child sexual abuse images made with artificial intelligence. It already stops access to photo-realistic material made by AI, but this move will extend to images which have a cartoon or artistic style. The website list comes from the Internet Watch Foundation which has seen a 400 percent increase in this type of material. Spark Sustainability Director Leela Ashford says it blocks the sites automatically. She says the list can include tens of thousands of websites.   LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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