A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography.

A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography, highlighting the danger and ubiquity of generative AI being used for nefarious reasons.

Phillip Michael McCorkle was arrested last week while he was working at a movie theater in Vero Beach, Florida, according to TV station CBS 12 News. A crew from the TV station captured the arrest, which made for dramatic video footage due to law enforcement leading away the uniform-wearing McCorkle from the theater in handcuffs.

  • KillerTofu@lemmy.world
    1654·
    2 months ago

    How was the model trained? Probably using existing CSAM images. Those children are victims. Making derivative images of “imaginary” children doesn’t negate its exploitation of children all the way down.

    So no, you are making false equivalence with your video game metaphors.

    • fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works
      601·
      2 months ago

      A generative AI model doesn’t require the exact thing it creates in its datasets. It most likely just combined regular nudity with a picture of a child.

      • finleyEnglish
        922·
        2 months ago

        In that case, the images of children were still used without their permission to create the child porn in question

        • MagicShel@programming.dev
          334·
          2 months ago

          That’s not really a nuanced take on what is going on. A bunch of images of children are studied so that the AI can learn how to draw children in general. The more children in the dataset, the less any one of them influences or resembles the output.

          Ironically, you might have to train an AI specifically on CSAM in order for it to identify the kinds of images it should not produce.

          • finleyEnglish
            29·
            2 months ago

            “Nuh uh!” Is a pretty weak argument

        • fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works
          72·
          2 months ago

          That’s a whole other thing than the AI model being trained on CSAM. I’m currently neutral on this topic so I’d recommend you replying to the main thread.

          • finleyEnglish
            28·
            2 months ago

            How is it different?

            • fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works
              162·
              2 months ago

              It’s not CSAM in the training dataset, it’s just pictures of children/people that are already publicly available. This goes on to the copyright side of things of AI instead of illegal training material.

              • finleyEnglish
                429·
                2 months ago

                It’s images of children used to make CSAM. No matter of your mental gymnastics can change that, nor the fact that those children’s consent was not obtained.

                Why are you trying so hard to rationalize the creation of CSAM? Do you actually believe there is a context in which CSAM is OK? Are you that sick and perverted?

                Because it really sounds like that’s what you’re trying to say, using copyright law as an excuse.

        • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
          86·
          2 months ago

          Good luck convincing the AI advocates of this. They have already decided that all imagery everywhere is theirs to use however they like.

    • macniel@feddit.org
      281·
      2 months ago

      Can you or anyone verify that the model was trained on CSAM?

      Besides a LLM doesn’t need to have explicit content to derive from to create a naked child.

      • KillerTofu@lemmy.world
        529·
        2 months ago

        You’re defending the generation of CSAM pretty hard here in some vaguely “but no child we know of” being involved as a defense.

        • macniel@feddit.org
          152·
          2 months ago

          I just hope that the Models aren’t trained on CSAM. Making generating stuff they can fap on ““ethical reasonable”” as no children would be involved. And I hope that those who have those tendancies can be helped one way or another that doesn’t involve chemical castration or incarceration.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 months ago

      While i wouldn’t put it past Meta&Co. to explicitly seek out CSAM to train their models on, I don’t think that is how this stuff works.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      But the AI companies insist the outputs of these models aren’t derivative works in any other circumstances!