SICK AI videos of tragic James Bulger talking about his own death have been shared on TikTok.
The tragic toddler was targeted by vile online trolls, with the computer-generated clips showing the two-year-old talk about his own murder that shocked the nation in 1993.
PA:Press AssociationBulger was only two when he was killed[/caption]
PAChild killer Jon Venables snatched James from a Merseyside shopping centre[/caption]
The videos were also accessible through Google.
But his mum Denise Fergus bravely launched a campaign to tackle the horror trolls – and has now won her battle.
Google has now pledged that it will delete content realistically simulating dead children and ban accounts that post it.
Mum Denise Fergus has spoken of her relief – telling The Mirror the images had caused her “immeasurable” pain.
She said: “It was a violation of our grief.”
The clips saw animated versions of Bulger telling viewers details about his abduction and murder.
Denise’s husband Stuart was alerted to the content in 2023, with him finding American, Spanish, and French versions of the clips.
He eventually tracked one poster down to the Phillippines, where they told Denise’s husband to support their account, The Mirror reported.
James was killed by two 10-year-olds – Jon Venables and Robert Thompson after they abducted James from a Merseyside shopping centre and sexually abused him.
Denise told The Mirror in July: “It is one thing to tell the story, I have not got a problem with that. Everyone knows the story of James anyway.
“But to actually put a dead child’s face, speaking about what happened to him, is absolutely disgusting. It is bringing a dead child back to life. It is wrong.”
In a statement to The Mirror, Google said it was striking content that realistically simulates dead children or victims of deadly or well-known major events describing their deaths.
The US tech giant said accounts that made repeated violations would be banned.
Other sick AI videos targeting child murder victims or those missing have also been posted on TikTok, including Madeleine McCann and Baby P.
According to a TikTok spokesperson AI-generated content that contains a likeness of a minor is a breach of its guidelines.
The spokesperson says 98 per cent of videos breaching guidelines were removed proactively, but moderation was complex at such a large scale.
TikTok, a Chinese social media app, was alleged to make its moderators watch child abuse material and other extreme content for 12 hours a day.
A class action lawsuit in America said the “highly toxic” work conditions caused a woman to suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression and other “significant” psychological trauma.
Meanwhile, the Internet Watch Foundation has said it has found thousands of AI-generated image of child sexual abuse material online.
In a new study of a single dark web forum, the IWF found 2,978 images of abuse generated using artificial intelligence.
Half of them depicted children of primary school age, with some as young as two years old.
AI-generated images are also being used by sick peadophiles to de-age celebrities into children.
Venables has vowed to fight a Parole Board decision to keep him in jail after he was recalled of child abuse images.
Google has been approached for comment.
The murder of James Bulger
On February 12, 1993, James was led away by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson while his mother Denise was in a butcher’s shop at the busy New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle.
A picture taken from CCTV footage shows the tot being taken by the hand in what would become one of the defining images of the shocking case.
The killers walked James for two and a half miles and were spotted by 38 people – some of whom challenged the pair.
Venables and Thompson told passers-by that the distressed toddler was their younger brother or that he was lost and they were taking him to a local police station.
The pair took James to a railway line and tortured, beat, and sexually assaulted him.
Venables and Thompson were found guilty of Bulger’s abduction and murder on November 24, 1993 – making them the youngest people to be jailed for murder in 250 years.
Denise Fergus, mum of James Bulger, has won over tech giant Google Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
