[HN Gopher] Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed
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Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed
Author : lifeisstillgood
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-06-27 21:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| KMnO4 wrote:
| I definitely don't support child pornography, but the quote from
| the article:
|
| > _He warned that a paedophile could, "move along that scale of
| offending from thought, to synthetic, to actually the abuse of a
| live child"._
|
| Sounds a lot like the argument that violent video games are
| responsible for real life shootings.
| 627467 wrote:
| At some point someone will realize that - particularly in UK -
| the taboo, histeria and irrationally around CP is net negative
| for actually doing good.
| version_five wrote:
| This is an attempted moral panic that while obviously disgusting
| should be an extremely low priority in a resource constrained law
| enforcement system. Unfortunately it gets play because it's a
| boogeyman that people who want to control and monitor online
| activity generally can make use of. Every cent that goes to
| "combatting" this is one that doesn't go to solving actual
| violent crime against kids, and in any event the whole enterprise
| is as futile as confiscating people's colored pencils.
|
| Set up a honeypot and refer people for investigation, fine. But
| let's not waste any additional resources or destroy additional
| freedoms for what is essentially a made up issue.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| How does a civilisation get to this stage. How can we glimpse
| creation of alien intelligence and go ... you what this would be
| good for.
|
| I guess I should have allocated more of my dice rolls on
| cynicism.
| NoRelToEmber wrote:
| The rate of rape in Japan is 1.2 per 100.000, while in the UK it
| is 24.1 per 100.000. Pornographic fictional depictions of minors
| are legal in Japan (in fact it is a major producer of them), but
| illegal in the UK.
|
| Same may say that sacrificing real children to the trauma of rape
| is inhumane, but I say it is a small price to pay for protecting
| our precious drawings. A real rape is eventually over, but a
| drawing can last forever.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#By_country
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...
| aaron695 wrote:
| [dead]
| version_five wrote:
| I think people misunderstood your post because of the sarcasm?
| If you read the post from shadowbanned person that replied to
| you, he seems to just reiterate your point.
| LinuxBender wrote:
| Is this realistic enough yet that it could deprecate careers held
| by the likes of Ghislaine Maxwell? Could intelligence agencies
| now target someone and select a child in their proximity or
| family circle, click a button and blackmail/destroy that person?
| What details would _AI_ always get wrong?
| soligern wrote:
| Of course it's good enough. Have you seen the stuff Midjourney
| can generate?
| LinuxBender wrote:
| It's realistic in the sense they look human but could it be
| realistic in enough detail that if a child was sitting at the
| desk of an investigator and they were watching the evidence,
| would they be convinced it is the child sitting at their desk
| and the _perp_ they just locked up?
| secfirstmd wrote:
| You could do that with Photoshop already.
|
| Blackmail as an intelligence recruitment technique, especially
| with something so fake, is really very limited in it's utility.
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