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Given these facts, it should not be possible to release an AI model to the public without first checking whether it is capable of producing CSAM, which is exactly what Amendment 266 would ensure. Earlier today in Committee, the Minister reiterated more than once the Government’s commitment to protect children from exploitation. As he has just acknowledged, AI-generated child sexual abuse material that blurs the line between real and synthetic images and desensitises users, particularly adult men, is cultivating disordered sexual appetites. Among experts there are concerns about the scale of reproduction and the spread of images not bound by the physical world. They need no gravity, no oxygen, yet they retraumatise survivors, divert limited resources away from protecting real children who are being abused and merge real children with fictitious children in improbable and impossible scenarios.