South Korea's National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response said its artificial intelligence system raised daily processing of child sexual abuse material removal requests per worker nearly tenfold, increasing its capacity to flag online content.
The center put the average at 202.1 cases per worker each day, up from 20.8 in 2025 — a 9.7-fold increase. It processed 96,210 cases from April through September, compared with 45,438 throughout 2025. Those figures measure cases processed for removal requests, not confirmed deletions.
Human reviewers assess material flagged by the system before requests are sent. In an April announcement, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Affairs said the technology collects and analyzes content around the clock on social networks and random-chat apps.
Faster processing does not establish how often platforms remove the material. In a separate report covering digital sex crimes more broadly, the Women's Human Rights Institute of Korea said illegal or harmful sites refused 28.5% of deletion requests in 2025, up from 24.7% in 2024. That rate does not measure the new system's results.
