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When my review team and I met the British Board of Film Classification, we were shown videos legally available on major sites—content that no reasonable person could argue did not depict child sexual abuse scenarios. I am not talking about a 40 year-old woman dressing in a school uniform, but about a tiny little girl in a child’s bedroom, surrounded by dolls, assaulted by someone explicitly described as her father—on mainstream porn sites. The title made the storyline unmistakable: “Daddy breaks into his daughter’s bedroom”. The actor was over 18 and because she mimicked a child, the content remained legal online. The current law applies to pseudo-images, which include AI-generated images. We are therefore in the strange situation of, quite rightly, prohibiting an AI-generated video depicting sexual activity with young-looking girls on the basis that it normalises and promotes sexual abuse, but a very similar video of real actors who look like young girls is allowed. This loophole should be closed.