CSAM
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsiːˌsæm/ (acronym)
Noun
CSAM (countable and uncountable, plural CSAMs)
- (uncountable) Initialism of cold spray additive manufacturing.
- (countable) Initialism of child sexual abuse material.
- 2021 September 3, Alex Hern, “Apple delays plans to scan cloud uploads for child sexual abuse images”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Apple’s plans were struck a significant blow two weeks after they were announced, when security researchers managed to reverse engineer the “perceptual hashing” algorithm the company intended to use to identify known CSAM that was being uploaded.
- 2024 May 28, Samantha Cole, Emanuel Maiberg, “AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Is Not a ‘Victimless Crime’”, in 404 Media[2]:
- The ability to produce infinite images powered by datasets containing millions of photographs of real people, including children, and real images of real CSAM, perpetuates abuse in a way that was previously impossible.