But it highlights the reality - while AI generated content may be considered fairly obvious for now, it won’t be forever. Real CSAM could be mixed in at some point, or, hell, the characters generating it could be feeding it real CSAM to have it recreate it in a manner that makes it harder to detect.
Very true and I would like to look into it further. Being able to disguise real content with an AI label could make things harder for people that detect and report these types of issues.
So what does this mean for hosting providers? We continuously receive reports for a client and each time we have to review it and what, use our best judgement to decide if it’s AI generated? We add the client to a list and ignore CSAM reports for them? We have to tell the government that it’s not “real CSAM” and expect it to end there?
I don’t understand the logic behind this. If it’s your job to analyze and deduce whether certain content is or is not acceptable, why shouldn’t you make assessments on a case by case basis? Even if you remove CSAM from the equation you still have to continuously sift through content and report any and all illegal activities - regardless of its frequency.
No legitimate hosting provider is going to knowingly host CSAM, AI generated or not. We aren’t going to invest legal resources into defending that, nor are we going to jeopardize the mental well-being of our staff by increasing the frequency of those reports.
And it’s the right of any website or hosting provider to not show any content they deem unsuitable for it’s viewers. But this is a non sequitur - illegal activities will never stop and it’s the duty of people like you to help and combat the distribution of such materials. I appreciate all the work people like you do and it’s a job I couldn’t handle. CP exists and will continue to exist. It’s just an ugly truth. I’m just asking a very uncomfortable question that will hopefully result in a very positive answer: can AI generated CP reduce the harm done to children?
Here’s a very interesting article of the potential positive effects of AI generated CP
Btw I appreciate your input in all of this. It means a lot coming from someone actually involved with this sort of thing.
Edit: and to your point, the article ends with a very real warning:
"Of course, using AI-generated images as a form of rehabilitation, alongside existing forms of therapy and treatment, is not the same as allowing its unbridled proliferation on the web.
“There’s a world of difference between the potential use of this content in controlled psychiatric settings versus what we’re describing here, which is just, anybody can access these tools to create anything that they want in any setting,” said Portnoff, from Thorn."
I fucking love windows 11. Especially compared to 10
I fucking do not love windows 10.