The entire concept of being sexually attracted to children is revolting, but I find the concept of criminalizing cartoons or AI generated images perplexing.
The whole legal theory behind criminalizing child porn is that the subjects are minors, can't consent, and are therefore victims. AI-generated pictures aren't people and can't be victims.
Barring evidence that viewing fake kiddie porn highly correlates with the person moving on to the real stuff, I'm not seeing the societal benefit to criminalizing this. Yes it's gross and perverted, but that's not the benchmark by which we define what is legal and what is not.
These people are wired wrong, and they can't be fixed, so I'd much rather that they sat in their house satisfying their urges by jerking off to fake kids than messing with real ones.
I'm not seeing the societal benefit to criminalizing this
Maybe charge them with something like obstruction? Because the more this shit gets put out there (if it's realistic) the harder it is for criminal investigators to track down children in real photos. The pedo networks will start sharing fake and real porn pics together to muddy the waters.
We've seen this firsthand on 8chan. A recurrent CP spammer switched to AI-generated realistic images because he could then use a whole lot more variety in VPNs to attack us with it, since it wasn't technically illegal, but it was hard to tell just from thumbnails that it was fake.
AI child pornography? Imagine being that much of a predator you have to make your own porn.
Also, of course this guy is the literally anti-right wing stereotype lmao.
The entire concept of being sexually attracted to children is revolting, but I find the concept of criminalizing cartoons or AI generated images perplexing.
The whole legal theory behind criminalizing child porn is that the subjects are minors, can't consent, and are therefore victims. AI-generated pictures aren't people and can't be victims.
Barring evidence that viewing fake kiddie porn highly correlates with the person moving on to the real stuff, I'm not seeing the societal benefit to criminalizing this. Yes it's gross and perverted, but that's not the benchmark by which we define what is legal and what is not.
These people are wired wrong, and they can't be fixed, so I'd much rather that they sat in their house satisfying their urges by jerking off to fake kids than messing with real ones.
Maybe charge them with something like obstruction? Because the more this shit gets put out there (if it's realistic) the harder it is for criminal investigators to track down children in real photos. The pedo networks will start sharing fake and real porn pics together to muddy the waters.
We've seen this firsthand on 8chan. A recurrent CP spammer switched to AI-generated realistic images because he could then use a whole lot more variety in VPNs to attack us with it, since it wasn't technically illegal, but it was hard to tell just from thumbnails that it was fake.