If you can be effectively censored by the banning of a site flooded with CSAM, that's very much your problem and nobody else's.
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TIL Tim Sweeny is into child porn. Not surprising tbh.
inb4 "In a stunning 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that AI-generated CSAM is constitutionally protected speech"
There is no such thing as generated CSAM, because the term exists specifically to distinguish anything made-up from photographic evidence of child rape. This term was already developed to stop people from lumping together Simpsons rule 34 with the kind of images you report to the FBI. Please do not make us choose yet another label, which you would also dilute.
The Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN) defines child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as "evidence of child sexual abuse" that "includes both real and synthetic content
Generating images of a minor can certainly fulfill the definition of CSAM. It’s a child, It’s sexual, It’s abusive, It’s material. It’s CSAM dude.
These are the images you report to the FBI. Your narrow definition is not the definition. We don’t need to make a separate term because it still impacts the minor even if it’s fake. I say this as a somewhat annoying prescriptivist pedant.
There cannot be material from the sexual abuse of a child if that sexual abuse did not fucking happen. The term does not mean 'shit what looks like it could be from the abuse of some child I guess.' It means, state's evidence of actual crimes.
It is sexual abuse even by your definition if photos of real children get sexualised by AI and land on xitter. And afaik know that is what's happened. These kids did not consent to have their likeness sexualised.
Nothing done to your likeness is a thing that happened to you.
Do you people not understand reality is different from fiction?
My likeness posted for the world to see in a way i did not consent to is a thing done to me
Your likeness depicted on the moon does not mean you went to the moon.
Your likebess modified naked being fucked, printed out and stapled to a tree in your neighborhood is ok then?
A threat of murder is a crime without being the same thing as murder.
Meditate on this.
And abuse is a different word than rape. Maybe meditate on that
And what if neither happened?
Dude, you're just wrong. There seems to be a huge disconnect with you between what the law is. And what you want the law to be.
You are not allowed to take an image of someone, photoshop them naked, and distributed it. Period.
You are also not allowed to depict child sexual abuse. It doesn't matter if it's not real. It's the depiction of CSA taking place that is illegal.
Depictions could somehow be twice as illegal as the real event, and they still wouldn't be the same thing. It literally did not take place.
The nonconsentual sexualised depiction is in and of itself abuse. Get that through your skull, you dense motherfucker. Revenge porn is abuse not necessarily because what it depicts is an act of abuse, but because the material itself is distributed in a manner that violates the consent of the person(s) depicted. Similarly, editing a child's likeness into a pornographic context is CSAM. Making a machine do likewise is CSAM.
Doubling down this hard to say this isn't actually abuse is a really bad look for you and atp I'm convinced that you're a total creep. I'm sure others are, too.
'This too is a crime, but it's a different crime.'
'Why are you defending this?'
Wrong.
Please send me pictures of your mom so that I may draw her naked and post it on the internet.
Deepfakes are illegal. You're defending deepfake cp now?
Threats are a crime, but they're a different crime than the act itself.
Everyone piling on understands that it's kinda fuckin' important to distinguish this crime, specifically, because it's the worst thing imaginable. They just also want to use the same word for shit that did not happen. Both things can be super fucking illegal - but they will never be the same thing.
CSAM is abusive material of a sexual nature of a child. Generated or real, both fit this definition.
CSAM is material.... from the sexual abuse... of a child.
Fiction does not count.
You’re the only one using that definition. There is no stipulation that it’s from something that happened.
Where is your definition coming from?
My definition is from what words mean.
We need a term to specifically refer to actual photographs of actual child abuse. What the fuck are we supposed to call that, such that schmucks won't use the same label to refer to drawings?
I already did the “what words mean” thing earlier.
-involves a child
-is sexual
-is abusive (here’s your Simpsons exclusion, btw)
-is material
That’s literally every word of CSAM, and it fits.
We need a term to specifically refer to actual photographs of actual child abuse
Why? You’ve made a whole lot of claims it should be your way but you’ve provided no sources nor any justification as to why we need to delineate between real and AI.
Are you honestly asking me why child molestation is worse than rendering an image?
This term was already developed to distinguish evidence of criminal events. I should fucking hope everyone here understands why preventing or punishing such events is a leading goal, but apparently that's asking too much, if y'all really do not believe there's a difference between pasting someone's head onto a magazine centerfold... versus sexually assaulting them. I am fucking bewildered by this lack of consensus on the topic of child rape. Really thought it was a gimme, for everyone to go, yeah, this thing over here is bad, but obviously it's not as bad as child rape.
Didn't expect to fire up the computer and have Lemmings sincerely ask me, why are crimes that happened worse than crimes that didn't?
Man, your reading comprehension is really shit. You could have just stopped after the first question. Yet again you’re making an assumption about the purpose of the term.
I'm making an explicit argument about the purpose of the term, as a necessary component of dealing with some of the worst crimes imaginable. I didn't figure I'd ever have to explain to someone why abusing a human child is fundamentally different from and worse than drawing on top of a fuckin' JPEG.
If y'all manage to stomp the meaning out of "CSAM," the same way y'did for "CP," we're gonna be right back here, where there's some bespoke term for the visual evidence of actual assault that physically occurred, yet people insist that a fictional rendering is-too VEOAATPO.
Diluting the impact of these terms is antithetical to protecting children. That stupid Horses game had people lobbing the term "CSAM" at it... for a game you can buy on GOG. If you can casually say "I bought some CSAM at Walmart the other day," then the term's not doing its fucking job, describing the kind of imagery you go straight to jail for.
I didn't figure I'd ever have to explain to someone why abusing a human child is fundamentally different from and worse than drawing on top of a fuckin' JPEG.
Holy shit. You don’t. Stop inventing arguments and read what the fuck I’m writing. Answer those questions.
What advantage does having unique terms for real and AI content confer? Answer in one sentence.
How do you think a child would feel after having a pornographic image generated of them and then published on the internet?
Looks like sexual abuse to me.
Dude, just stop jerking off to kids whether they’re cartoons or not.
'If you care about child abuse please stop conflating it with cartoons.'
'Pedo.'
Fuck off.
Did Covid-19 make everyone lose their minds? This isn't about corporate folks being cruel or egotistical. This is just a stupid thing to say. Has the world lost the concept of PR??? Genuinely defending 𝕏 in the year 2026... for Deepfake porn including of minors!!???? From the Fortnite company guy???
Unironically this behaviour is just "pivoting to a run for office as a Republican" vibes nowadays.
Its no longer even 'weird behaviour' for a US CEO.
For some reason Epic studios just let Tim Sweeney say the most insane things. If I was a shareholder I'd want someone to take his phone off him.
Trump has shown these oligarchs that they don't have to pretend to not be arrogant oligarchs anymore. They can speak their minds without suffering any kind of repercussion or censure for their insane narcissistic greed.
Did Covid-19 make everyone lose their minds?
Every day further convinces me we all died of COVID, and this is The Bad Place.
Imagine where Epic would be if they had just censored Tim Sweeney’s Twitter account.
It’s like he’s hell bent on driving people away from Epic. I’m not sure I could be more abrasive if I tried, without losing the plausible deniability of not trying to troll.
I'll keep in mind Tim think child porn is just politics.
It is when one side of the political palette is "against" it but keeps supporting people who think CSAM is a-okay, while the other side finds it abhorrent regardless who's pushing it.
I mean the capitalist are the ones calling the shots since the imperial core is no democracy. This is their battle we are their dildos.
Literally this meme again

If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by
It helps that Tim Sweeney seems to always be wrong about everything.
It's called being so effective at marketing and spending so much money on it that people believe you don't do nothing.
His opinion is as trash as his gaming storefront that insists its a platform.
Yet another CEO who's super into child porn huh?
Guy atomically made of shit takes has another shit take, colour me surprised.
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