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Under new law (in California), cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images (arstechnica.com)

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Late last year, California passed a law against the possession or distribution of child sex abuse material (CSAM) that has been generated by AI. The law went into effect on January 1, and Sacramento police announced yesterday that they have already arrested their first suspect—a 49-year-old Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist named Darrin Bell.

The new law, which you can read here, declares that AI-generated CSAM is harmful, even without an actual victim. In part, says the law, this is because all kinds of CSAM can be used to groom children into thinking sexual activity with adults is normal. But the law singles out AI-generated CSAM for special criticism due to the way that generative AI systems work.

"The creation of CSAM using AI is inherently harmful to children because the machine-learning models utilized by AI have been trained on datasets containing thousands of depictions of known CSAM victims," it says, "revictimizing these real children by using their likeness to generate AI CSAM images into perpetuity."

Edit: Bolded out certain parts to clarify why they're doing it.

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[–] earphone843 1 points 3 days ago (9 children)

While the content is abhorrent, I don't get the logic of its being trained on already existing images causing harm to the individuals in the images. It's not like csam was generated for the express purpose of training the AI model.

[–] _core -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If ai generated csam stops actual csam isn't that a good thing?

[–] earphone843 -2 points 3 days ago

I think so

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