As police grapple with a surge in AI-generated child abuse material and sophisticated deepfake scams , an Australian university has developed a tool to disrupt cybercrime.

The technology, known as 'data poisoning', subtly alters an image to make it significantly more difficult to reproduce, manipulate or misuse with AI .

The tool, called 'Silverer', has been developed by the AI for Law Enforcement and Community Safety (AiLECS) Lab, a collaboration between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Monash University in Melbourne.

AiLECS researcher, project lead and PhD candidate Elizabeth Perry said "before a person uploads images on social media or the internet, they can modify them using Silverer".

"This will alter the pixels to trick AI models and the resulting generations will be v

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