UK Police Recorded 163 AI-Related Crimes by July 2026, Up From 10 in 2023 Across 20 Forces
The Telegraph·medium signal
The Telegraph obtained data from 20 police forces in England and Wales showing AI-related offences rose roughly 16x in three years, from 10 recorded in 2023 to 163 by July 2026, concentrated in deepfake nude imagery including images of children. The absolute numbers are small enough that the growth rate is the story, and they arrive while UK legislation on synthetic sexual imagery is still catching up to the tooling.