AI-created child sexual abuse images 'threaten to overwhelm internet' (opens in new tab)

A concern is the availability will drive people to seek more dangerous behavior.

Creating and possessing this sort of imagery is already illegal in a lot of places so it's not just about abuse. Further as with adults its possible and perhaps even likely that AI imagery will be generated of real children.

While agree with your sentiment and logic in it’s entirety I guess a difficult pill to swallow would be the fact that someone would ultimately be making money from images, albeit fake, of child abuse.

Were you the parent of a kid whose abuse was put on the internet and used as a matrix to generate endless child pornography, would you be happy about that usage of your kid's material?

Like methadone or nicotine patches. But for sexual predators.

I guess maybe the problem is that if the content progression thesis holds true, some people would get more and more extreme in their pornography needs. This may be an on ramp for more child sex crimes?

the issue is normalization in a polarized society, with rising addiction rates and emerging long-term consequences of a diverse range of meds n stuff, psychedelics entering the mass-markets all while air-, water- and food-quality is declining and one crisis hitting the next with corporations exploiting them all for massive gains that give the pervs in top 13 % the feeling that they are superior and can fuck any child any way they want.

a lot of brains are changing in strange ways. health issues due to consequences of climate change are rising silently and everybody knows whose fault it is. almost nothing was done for mitigation. abusers, murderers, torturers, rapists and the likes all feel the same superiority as the wealthy do making the wealthy abusers, pedophiles and so on even worse, especially in times where almost anything can be justified based on the arguments of corporate and political leadership.