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“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops (arstechnica.com)
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Fitzgerald’s is a rare case where an official employed by the state’s top law enforcement and legal office has been accused of making and distributing AI CSAM, although some cops have been arrested for the crime. Earlier this year, a Pennsylvania cop was arrested for making AI porn from photos on driver’s licenses, and more recently in Korea, a police officer was arrested for making AI porn, including CSAM, The Korea Times reported.

In New Jersey, the deputy attorney general has been charged with possession of CSAM, dissemination of photos or film of CSAM, and “criminal use of a communication facility,” detectives said.

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[+] -17 points 2 weeks ago* (9 children)

For real? Next you're gonna tell me Adobe is at fault too for letting you xray nude people (modifying existing colour channels in existing images to see through clothes), and knife manufacturers are at fault for you stabbing everyone

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

    There's a difference.

    Both of those scenarios are meaningfully regulated under the law. (Specifically revenge porn, misusing a person's likeness, and stabbing people.) Also, if you don't think providing someone with a weapon in the knowledge that they intend to do harm to a person with it will get you into some serious legal shit, you would be incorrect.

    CSAM via AI, currently, is not and major tech firms are flouting that fact for profit. (Or, more accurately, in a desperate grasp for any profit, since AI isn't profitable.) Absent meaningful regulation it is imperative to hold the companies knowingly creating the dangerous product accountable legally and financially. We know they can program their models not to do this because several of them don't have demonstrated it.

    Also, thanks to leakers, we know 100% that the companies doing this are aware of what they're doing. I made a whole video about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    CSAM absolutely is... What a wild thing to say

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (5 children)

    CSAM, yes.

    CSAM via AI, no.

    And the word you're ignoring here is 'meaningfully', which is pretty important.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2024/PSA240329

    The FBI is warning the public that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) created with content manipulation technologies, to include generative artificial intelligence (AI), is illegal. Federal law prohibits the production, advertisement, transportation, distribution, receipt, sale, access with intent to view, and possession of any CSAM,1 including realistic computer-generated images.

    Respectfully please stfu, you're spreading incredibly harmful misinformation. The article we're commenting on is even about the arrest of a CSAM generator??

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Is this meaningfully enforced though? I agree that accuracy about what the law says is important, but laws are being unevenly enforced, making them, by definition, privileges. Just because the government calls it a law doesn't mean it functions as one in the practical sense, which is what matters most.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago

    Harmful about law, useful about facts of life one like that generating a picture doesn't involve abusing a child, so it's not child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

    Yes, I do feel threatened by people who think it's just to punish consuming generated material. That's because of pretty "normal" porn. Is watching (and spreading) something about BSDM similar to sexual abuse materials (about adults)? Is generated porn sexual exploitation material, if porn is in some future outlawed as such with real punishments? Is it, if the dataset is polluted with cases of slavery and rape? If it's not, then is it legal in such a potential future?

    If you do that to CSAM, try applying the same logic to normal porn and plenty of other things which are for some people sick, but legal because nobody suffers.

    The problem with generated CSAM is that it normalizes sick things, well, that's still a crime an order of magnitude less than spreading a record of real rape. Seems obvious.

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