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

• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No that’s not necessarily true at all. You can take a stock stable diffusion model and output these images right Now without additional training. The whole point of diffusion models is that you don’t need 100% training data coverage to create new images outside of the original dataset. Having learned the concept of child from any normal image set of children and learning the concept of nudity/porn from legal adult images is more than enough to create a blended concept of the two.

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  • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Having learned the concept of child from any normal image set of children

    Those children are the abuse victims.

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    • Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Having never used an AI generator, generic generated images wouldn’t be an actual match to the dataset images, right? It would just be generating features it understands to be associated with the concept of a child, which would make the claim that the dataset children are the abuse targets a stretch, unless there’s some other direct or indirect harm to them. An immediate exception being a person writing a prompt attempting to create a specific facsimile of an individual.

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      • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Section 1466A of Title 18, United States Code, makes it illegal for any person to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possess with intent to transfer or distribute visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and are deemed obscene.

        That’s nice, still illegal.

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    • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The children don’t exist. The concept of child is learned from a series of 1s and 0s

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      • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then it’s abuse because the law says so and how the images are generated is irrelevant.

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