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Police in 20 countries have taken down a network that distributed images of child sexual abuse entirely generated by artificial intelligence.

The operation – which spanned European countries including the United Kingdom as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand – is "one of the first cases" involving AI-generated images of child sexual abuse material, Europe's law enforcement agency Europol, which supported the action, said in a press release.

Danish authorities led an operation, which resulted in 25 arrests, 33 house searches and 173 devices being seized.

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[–] mindbleach 17 points 1 week ago (10 children)

You can't... generate... abuse.

No more than you can generate murder.

The entire point of saying "child abuse images" is to distinguish evidence of rape from, just, drawings.

If you want drawings of this to also be illegal, fine, great, say that. But stop letting people use the language of actual real-world molestation of living human children, when describing some shit a guy made up alone.

[–] QBertReynolds 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

How did they train the model? I'd say it's just as problematic if the generator was trained using CSAM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Theoretically you should be able to generate it by cobbling together legal images.

But given the massive volume of scraped data, they've also ended up with actual CSAM in their training data. I recall seeing articles about them having to identify and remove it, but I'm definitely not adding that search to my history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I find the legal aspect of it fascinating because proving the age of a computer generated boob is impossible unless you have access to the actual prompt used to create it, and that prompt specifically asks for an image of CSAM. And even then, who's to say the system didn't use create most of the image from legal training data, and just had underage facial features. It'll be interesting to see how they prosecute and defend against these charges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

"Draw me an image of a 1000 year old succubus stuck inside the body of a..."

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