## 3 Initial Results
#### 3.1.2 A Narrative Conceptual Exploration
\begin{table}
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**Digital Technologies** & **Roles in Enabling Sextortion** & **Impact** & **Referenced Studies** \\ \hline Mobile apps, virtual reality platforms, and social media. & Non-consensual taking, sharing, or threats to share personal, intimate images or videos. & Psychological and emotional, social, financial, and behavioral impacts, and physical harm & [38] \\ \hline Social media platforms, messaging apps, online dating sites, camera and video-enabled devices, email, and online communication channels & Grooming, harassment, and non-consensual sharing of intimate images, cyberstalking, romance scams, revenge porn and sextortion, coercive messages & Violence, digital harassment, image-based abuse, sexual aggression and/or coercion, and gender-/sexuality-based harassment & [43] \\ \hline Social networking, online hosting services, and advanced encryption techniques & Recruit victims, advertise services, store and share illicit content, protecting their communications and data from detection & Mental health risks, psychological terrorism & [40] \\ \hline Social media, messaging apps, GPS tracking apps, online video-sharing platforms, cloud storage, and digital media sharing & Coercion, harassment, and dissemination of sexually explicit content, coerced sexting and sextortion, cyberstalking and monitoring of victims, recording and distribution of sexual assaults, and storing and disseminating explicit content. & [44] \\ \hline Internet, online platforms, mobile phones, messaging apps, and live-streaming technology & Advertise victims and connect with potential clients, communicate covertly, coordinate logistics, broadcast exploitative content, and non-consensual explicit content & [39] \\ \hline Educational platforms, poor digital literacy infrastructure & Lack of early cybersafety education enables grooming and manipulation & Psychological and emotional harm, especially to minors & [48] \\ \hline IoT devices and infrastructure & Potential for remote access to cameras, microphones, and private data, enabling covert monitoring and exploitation & Surveillance-driven coercion, data exposure, and non-consensual recordings & [49] \\ \hline Socio-technical platforms (architecture-level vulnerabilities rather than just app-level usage) & Hosting sensitive user data that can be exploited, potential detection gaps & Privacy violations, data exploitation & [50] \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Digital technologies’ roles and impact in enabling sextortion. recordings where victims' faces or voices are used to replace original actors in sexually explicit content. These forms of alterations are commonly referred to as deepfakes. These digitally altered images and videos are then used to blackmail and extort victims on social media and chatting platforms, thereby resulting in sextortion. Other examples of AI usage in sexual exploitation include the sexualization of female AI agents. According to the findings of the research in Table 3, AI can be used in many ways to limit, combat, and prevent sexual exploitation on digital platforms. The same Table 3 also highlights some ethical issues that arise, such as privacy issues due to data misuse and sensitivity, the accuracy of detection logic due to false positives, bias due to incomplete training datasets, security, and data confidentiality. Other ethical issues include transparency, trustability, and accountability of AI systems. There is also the problem of accessibility of AI tools and legal issues related to regulatory jurisdiction and different interpretations of sexual exploitation, issues that we explain in detail in the following paragraphs of this narrative exploration. Thirdly, we clarify the emergence of AI for social good and societal resilience as anchors for ethical AI development. _AI for Social Good:_ With its ability to both help and harm, AI has immense promise in producing multidimensional impacts. We should properly harness its abilities, especially regarding social issues.