AFP Acting Assistant Commissioner, Helen Schneider, has requested photos from the public to aid in the development of artificial intelligence software to detect child sex abuse material.

‘My Pictures Matter’ is a joint initiative by AFP and Monash University that seeks to build an artificial tool that will allow for quicker identification of victims and predators.

Australian Federal Police are requesting the public to upload appropriate pictures of themselves as a child, on mypicturesmatter.org.

The initiative is looking to build a portfolio of 100,000 images.

Pictures may be between the ages of 0-17 years, with people from different backgrounds, ethnicities and decades, as it will allow greater search capability.

She emphasised that an AI tool will help identify victims quicker due to the speed of technology, which means police will “be able to remove children from harm and intervene in that cycle of abuse a lot earlier”.

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