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AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’::Internet Watch Foundation finds 3,000 AI-made abuse images breaking UK law

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Holy hyperbole, batman! Threaten to overwhelm the internet!

Someone's hungry for clicks today, eh, The Guardian?

AI-generated CSAM is illegal under the Protection of Children Act 1978, which criminalises the taking, distribution and possession of an “indecent photograph or pseudo photograph” of a child.

Aaaand there you go. This is nothing new. There have been laws on the books for decades to help deal with this exact problem. Someone just slapped "AI" on the story to gin up worry.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are trying to gather support for the new invasions into your privacy that are required "to save the poor children"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Those poor AI children!

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