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Isn’t it a good thing for pedophiles to have an outlet for their desires that doesn’t involve harming children? Am I not seeing an obvious downside?
Pedophilia is not a sexuality and CSAM, AI generated or not, is not a healthy outlet. Pedophilia should be treated as a disease, and pedophiles should receive treatment for that instead.
pedophiles should receive treatment for that instead
In a world where many people cannot afford basic healthcare or – if they can afford it – where healthcare isn’t available in the required quantity, does your argument still hold?
the treatment is daily merciless beatings
If I'm not mistaking I remember reading that consuming CSAM increases the likelihood of offense since it normalizes the act/makes the fantasies more vivid. It makes them more want to act out what they see instead of removing desires.
Don’t AI models need to be trained on the material they are trying to emulate?
No. I make AI generated imagery so let me clear this one up. AI does make up a facsimile based on training data, but combinations of training data can create results not related to that training data.
Eg. Combining training data from legal fem boys, petite women, legal teens, along with non-nudes of generated children who don't represent any real person, along with training data for increasing or decreasing age.
None of this uses CSAM or pedophilic abuse material and is all legally and easily obtainable, but in combination can generate pedophilic content.