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Ethics · Brookings · 2026

Child Safety on Consumer AI Avatar Platforms

Brookings AI Safety LabAn audit of nine consumer avatar platforms found that six allowed creation of avatars depicting minors without meaningful verification, and four permitted explicit-content prompts on such avatars.

Key findings

  • Only two of nine platforms used face-age verification.
  • No platform tested could reliably block requests to recreate a specific named child from publicly available photos.

What it means in practice

Platform-level age and identity verification, not after-the-fact moderation, is the only reliable defense. Policymakers should treat the creation of likenesses of minors as a higher bar than text moderation.