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.

  • fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works
    152·
    5 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.

      • nomous@lemmy.world
        272·
        5 months ago

        It’s every time with you people, you can’t have a discussion without accusing someone of being a pedo. If that’s your go-to that says a lot about how weak your argument is or what your motivations are.

          • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
            82·
            5 months ago

            You’re just projecting your unwillingness to ever take a stance that doesn’t personally benefit you.

            Some people can think about things objectively and draw a conclusion that makes sense to them without personal benefit being a primary determinant of said conclusion.

              • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
                72·
                5 months ago

                You’re arguing against a victimless outlet that there is significant evidence would reduce the incidence of actual child molestation.

                So let’s use your ‘logic’/argumentation: why are you against reducing child molestation? Why are you against fake pictures but not actual child molestation? Why do you want children to be molested?

                  • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
                    83·
                    5 months ago

                    Your claim that it’s victimless is, of course, false since real children are used in the training data without consent.

                    Your assumption, but there are a ton of royalty-free images that contain children out there, more than enough for an AI to ‘learn’ proportions etc. Combine with adult nudity, and a generative AI can ‘bridge the gap’ create images of people that don’t exist (hence the word “generative”).

                    This also ignores the fact that the result is child porn

                    That’s not a fact. “Child porn” requires a child–pixels on a screen depicting the likeness of a person, and a person that does not actually exist in the real world to boot, is not a child.

                    Lastly, your claim that any of this results in any reduction in child abuse is spurious and unsubstantiated.

                    I’m just making a reasonable guess based on what’s been found about other things in the same subcategory (Japanese research found that those who have actually molested a kid were less likely to have consumed porn comics depicting that subject matter, than the general population), and in other sex categories, like how the prevalence of rape fantasy porn online correlates with a massive reduction of real-life rape.

                    Seems pretty unlikely that this is going to be the one and only exception to date where a fictional facsimile doesn’t ‘satiate’ the urge to offend in real life, and instead encourages the ‘consumer’ to offend.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        191·
        5 months ago

        Lol you don’t understand that the faces AI generated are not real. In any way.

          • fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works
            82·
            5 months ago

            I’m not neutral about child porn, I’m very much against it, stop trying to put words in my mouth. I’m talking about this kind of use of AI could be in the very same category of loli imagery, since these are not real child sexual abuse material.