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AI-Generated Fraud Is Surging. Here's What Platforms Need to Know.
Fake storefronts, phishing campaigns, and scam advertisements are scaling faster than traditional detection can handle. Platforms that process payments, serve ads, or host user-generated content are already facing this threat and seeing an increase in chargebacks, more frustrated users, and damage to brand reputation.


How AI Is Transforming Child Safety Online
As predators adapt faster than traditional safety tools can respond, AI-powered protection has become essential for platforms. SafetyKit uses agentic AI to detect grooming patterns, block evasion tactics, and intervene early before harm reaches children.

Why Custom Fraud Tooling Beats Internal Tools for Marketplaces
Internal fraud tools can't keep pace with evolving threats, requiring months of engineering work for basic updates. SafetyKit's AI-powered fraud detection deploys in days, automatically resolves clear cases, and learns from every decision to catch sophisticated fraud patterns traditional systems miss.

EU Digital Services Act Platform Compliance Guide
The EU Digital Services Act requires platforms to moderate illegal content, conduct risk assessments, protect children, and maintain transparent content moderation practices. Non-compliance results in fines up to 6% of global revenue. SafetyKit provides AI-powered infrastructure with 200+ ready-to-deploy policies that enable platforms to achieve DSA compliance immediately.

The UK Online Safety Act: What Platforms Need to Know About Content Moderation Compliance
The UK Online Safety Act requires platforms to detect illegal content, protect children, and verify ages. Learn OSA requirements and how to achieve compliance.

The Take It Down Act (2025): What Platforms Need to Know About Federal NCII Compliance
The Take It Down Act—effective May 2025—requires platforms to remove non-consensual intimate or AI-generated content within 48 hours. SafetyKit helps platforms stay compliant with AI-powered detection, automated takedowns, and audit-ready reporting.

Agentic Commerce Compliance for LLM Platforms.
Agent commerce creates fraud and compliance liability for LLM platforms. Without merchant verification and real-time moderation, platforms face penalties, chargebacks, and regulatory exposure.

Merchant Verification for Agentic Commerce Payments
AI agents will drive $1T in transactions by 2030. SafetyKit provides real-time merchant verification to prevent chargebacks and protect processor relationships before payment authorization.

Agentic Commerce: How Marketplaces Can Win in the Era of AI Shopping Agents
AI agents are now driving massive e-commerce traffic through LLMs. To capture this high-intent traffic, marketplaces need real-time trust & safety infrastructure—manual review processes are too slow and getting excluded from AI recommendations.
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OpenAI Introduces Safety Models in Collaboration with SafetyKit
OpenAI announced two safety models (gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b) for classifying online safety harms. Developed with ROOST, SafetyKit, and Discord these models let developers configure safety policies for their platforms.
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Launching New Safety Policies in a Few Hours... Instead of Months
SafetyKit closes the gap between scale and nuance with adaptive, context-aware AI that enforces policies in real time so platforms stay safe as they grow.

Scaling Merchant Risk Review: The Future of Trust and Safety for Payment Platforms
Payment processors face onboarding bottlenecks from manual risk reviews that slow approvals and hurt conversions. SafetyKit automates merchant evaluation, classify MCCs, and flag compliance risks in real time to deliver faster onboarding, more accurate risk decisions, and lower costs.
How AI is Helping Marketplaces Combat Illegal Wildlife Trade
The illegal wildlife trade is a $23B global industry hidden across online marketplaces through coded language and deceptive imagery. SafetyKit’s AI detects endangered species and banned materials in real time, helping platforms remove 100+ violations daily with over 95% accuracy.

SafetyKit's Engineering Culture
SafetyKit has an intentionally-designed engineering culture built for autonomy, output, and speed. Here's how we scale our culture.

Royal Honey Risks: Why the Same Dangerous Product Keeps Slipping Through
Despite ongoing FDA crackdowns, "royal honey" products — supplements laced with undisclosed pharmaceuticals — continue to infiltrate marketp

SafetyKit Raises $27m to Make AI do Tech's Dirty Work
Patreon, Eventbrite, Upwork, and the world’s largest marketplaces and payments companies rely on SafetyKit to keep their platforms
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