1y ago

US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges

www.theguardian.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15863526

Steven Anderegg allegedly used the Stable Diffusion AI model to generate photos; if convicted, he could face up to 70 years in prison

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1y ago

US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges

www.theguardian.com /technology/article/2024/may/21/child-sexual-abuse-material-artificial-intelligence-arrest

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How are they abuse images if no abuse took place to create them?
- If the model was trained on csam then it is dependent on abuse
  
  That's a heck of a slippery slope I just fell down.
  If responses generated from AI can be held criminally liable for their training data's crimes, we can all be held liable for all text responses from GPT, since it's being trained on reddit data and likely has access to multiple instances of brigading, swatting, man hunts, etc.
  
  As I said in my other comment, the model does not have to be trained on CSAM to create images like this.
  
  That irrelevant, any realistic depiction of children engaged in sexual activity meets the legal definition of csam. Even using filters on images of consenting adults could qualify as csam if the intent was to make the actors appear underage.
- Because they are images of children being graphically raped, a form of abuse. Is an AI generated picture of a tree not a picture of a tree?
  
  No it isn't, not anymore than a drawing of a car is a real car, or drawings of money are real money.
  
  It's a picture of a hallucination of a tree. Distinguishing real from unreal ought to be taken more seriously given the direction technology is moving.
- I mean... regardless of your moral point of view, you should be able to answer that yourself. Here's an analogy: suppose I draw a picture of a man murdering a dog. It's an animal abuse image, even though no actual animal abuse took place.
  
  Its not though, its just a drawing.
- CSAM is illegal all around
  
  It isn't csam if there was no abuse.
  
  There was no C.
  There was no SA.
  The entire point of saying "CSAM" was to distinguish evidence of child rape from depictions of imaginary events.
- All the lemmy.world commenters came out to insist "that painting is a pipe, though."
  Yeah? Smoke it.
  
  Lemmy.world and bandwagoning on a sensitive topic that they know nothing about? Classic combo.
13.000 images are generated relatively fast. My PC needs like 5 seconds for a picture with SD(depending on settings of course). So not even a day.
Also, if pedos would only create their own shit to fap to i would consider this a win.
- The only good pedo is a pedo permanently separated from society. Let's start with the Catholic Church
- Also, if pedos would only create their own shit to fap to i would consider this a win.
  Vape logic.
  
  Could you explain why?
  Anti Commercial-AI license
Sensitive topic - obviously.
However these guard rail laws, and “won’t someone think about the children” cases are a reeeeally easy way for the government to remove more power from the people.
However, I believe if handled correctly, banning this sort of thing is absolutely necessary to combat the mental illness that is pedophilia.
- I don't condone child sexual abuse, and I'm definitely not a pedo (gosh, I can't believe I have to state this.)
  But how does banning AI generated material help combating a mental illness? The mental illness will still be there, with or without images...
  
  There's something to be said about making it as difficult as possible to enable the behavior. Though that does run the risk of a particularly frustrated individual doing something despicable to an actual child. I don't exactly have the data on how all this plays out, and frankly I don't want to be the one to look into it. Society isn't particularly equipped to handle an issue like this though, focusing on stigma alone to kinda try to shove it under the rug.
  
  Mainly it’s a problem of enabling the problem as others have mentioned.
  It’s not a solution, per se. It doesn’t solve something specifically- but it doesn’t have to be. It’s about making it less accessible, harsher consequences, and so on to put more pressure on not continuing to participate in the activity. Ultimately it boils down to mental health and trauma. Pedophilia is a paraphilic disorder at the end of the day.
It seems weird that the AI companies aren't being held responsible too.
- It's open source code that someone ran on their own computer, it's not like he used paid OpenAI credits to generate the image.
  It also would set a bad precedent - it would be like charging Solomons & Fryhle because someone used their (absolutely ubiquitous) organic chemistry textbook to create methamphetamine
- Well the American way is not to hold the company accountable, I.e. school shootings, so yeah.
  
  I'm pretty sure you can't hold a school liable for a school shooting
- Just to be clear, you guys think that any company that produces anything that ends up used in a crime should have criminal charges for making the product? Yeah, makes about as much sense as anything these days.
- I think stable diffusion is an open source AI you can run on your own computer, so I don't see how the developers should be held responsible for that.
70 years for... Generating AI CSAM? So that's apparently worse than actually raping multiple children?
- He did more than generate it, he also sent some of it to a minor on Instagram, probably intending to get some real CSAM, or worse. For that, spending the next 70 years away from both children and computers seems appropriate to me.
  
  Punishment over rehabilitation has always been a great solution 👍
  Anti Commercial-AI license
Of course he did. That's the world we live in.

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