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[-] Pooptimist@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago

Hear me out on this one:

If we take it as given that pedophilia is a disorder and ultimatly a sickness, wouldn't it be better that these people get their fix from AI created media than from the real thing?

IMO there was no harm done to any kid in the creation of this and it would be better to give these people the fix they need or at least desperately desire in this way before they advance to more desperate and harmful measures.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.one 80 points 1 year ago

You have a point, but in at least one of these cases the images used were of the girls around them and even tried extorting one is then. Issues like this should be handled on a case by case basis.

Some of the comments here are so stupid: "either they unpedophile themselves or we just kill them for their thoughts"

Ok so let me think this through. Sexual preferences in any way or pretty normal and they don't go away. Actually if you tend to ignore them they become stronger. Also being a pedophile is not a crime currently. It's the acting on it. So what happens right now is that people bottle it up, then it gets too much and they act on it in gruesome ways, because "if I go to prison I might as well make sure it was worth it". Kids get hurt.

"But we could make thinking about it illegal!" No we can't. Say that's a law, what now? If you don't like someone, they're a "pedophile". Yay more false imprisonment. Also what happens to real pedophiles? Well they start commit more acts because theres punishment even for restraint. And the truth is a lot of ppl have pedophilic tendencies. You will not catch all of them. Things will just get worse.

So why AI? Well as the commenter above me already said, if there's no victim, there's no problems. While that doesn't make extortion legal (I mean obv. it's a different law), this could make ppl with those urges have more restraint. We could even still limit it to specific sites and make it non-shareable. We'd have more control over it.

I know ppl still want the easy solution which evidently doesn't work, but imo this is a perfect solution.

[-] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I largely agree with what you're saying and there definitely is no easy solution. I've never understood why drawings or sex dolls depicting underage people are illegal in some places, as they are victimless crimes.

The issue with aigen that differentiates it a bit from the above is the fidelity. You can tell a doll or an anime isn't real, but in a few years from now it'll b difficult to spot aigen images. This isn't unique to this scenario though, it's going to wreck havok on politics, scams, etc, but there is the potential that real CP comes out from hiding and is somewhat shielded by the aigen.

Of course this is just speculation, I hope it would go the other way around and everyone just jacks off at their computers and CP disappears completely. We need to stop focusing our attention on people with pedophila, get them mental support, and focus on sex offenders who are actually hurting people.

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[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Pedo isn't a sexual preference anymore than cannibal a dietary one...

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

That's basically how I feel. I'd much rather these kinds of people jack it to drawings and AI Generated images if the alternative is that they're going to go after real chidlren.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

At some point the fake images won't do it for them and then they'd fix their attention to real kids. We don't want to wait for that to happen.

It's like using a drug with your threshold increasing each time you use, they're will be a time that your old limit will have no effect on your satisfaction level.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Is that proven or just bullshit speculation?

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[-] stockRot@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Source: dude just trust me

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By your logic, does everyone who's into bdsm have a sex dungeon in their bedroom?

Your comment reduces everyone to their base fetishes, as if that were the only thing enacting pressure on an individual to act, and I don't believe that's the case.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you know how much porn there is of the My Little Pony characters? Tons

Do you know how much of an epidemic there is of cartoon watchers going out and fucking ponies? Somewhere between null and zilch... Maybe one or two extreme cases, but that's around the same amount of people who watch Super Hero movies and try to jump off the roof in order to fly.

This is a slippery slope fallacy if I ever saw it.

Heck, if anything we've seen that restrictions on porn actually leads to increased instances of sexual assault, in the same way a crackdown on drugs just leads to more deaths from overdoses.

If letting some sicko have fake images of pretend children saves even one real child from being viciously exploited, I think it's worth it.

It's not ideal and yeah, it makes the skin of any sane person crawl... Ideally we should be out curing pedophiles of their sexual urges entirely, but since we don't have a way to do that why let perfect be the enemy of good? I mean what other ideas do we have? Cause "To Catch A Predator" may have been good television, but even that had ethical concerns ending in lawsuits lost and suicides performed, and castrated everyone convicted isn't exactly 8th Amendment friendly... and even then that prevents repeat offenses, not initial offenses. (Prevention > Cure)

Now all this aside, we do need to look at this on a case by case basis. If real children are being used to model for the AI or fake images are used as a form of blackmail (Think "Revenge Porn", but way, way worse), then cuffs need to be slapped on people.

[-] DaGeek247@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

Exxept for the source csam required to get the model started, of course.

[-] captain_spork@startrek.website 65 points 1 year ago

That is not required. Especially in the larger models like a DALLE-3 it can combine concepts even without being directly trained on it. The one they had in the showcase for DALLE-2 was a chair shaped like an avocado. It knows what a chair is and it knows what an avocado is, so it can combine them. So it can know "this is what a naked human looks like" and "this is what a human child looks like" and could combine them without having ever seen CSAM.

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[-] llamatron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because eventually looking at images might not be enough

Edit: Do we want to be normalising this? It's disturbing how there's people defending it.

Bro I've watched a lot of regular porn and never once have I gone out and thought "why yes I'd sure like to rape that person"

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 year ago

By that logic almost everyone in Hollywood should be in prison for depicting violence, murder, rape etc in movies/shows etc. This argument was put to rest back in the '90s.

[-] Obonga@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

Slippery slope argument goes brrrrrr

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[-] snownyte@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

That'd be like giving an alcoholic a pint by the end of the week to reward their alcoholic behavior that they'd want out of.

That'd be like giving money to a gambling addict as they promise to 'pay you back' for the loan you've given them.

My point is, enabling people's worst habits is always a bad idea.

And how can you guarantee for certain that after awhile of these AI-generated CP crap, that they eventually wouldn't want the real thing down the road and therefore, attempt crimes?

Your solution is just dumb altogether.

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

...Aren't drug patches already a thing for more extreme drugs? I feel like you just gave bad examples when there's actual examples that exist....

[-] Obonga@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

There is literally no data to back up your slippery slope argument.

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[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

I'm not an expert on the psychology of pedophilia, but I don't think it has anything to do with addiction. It seems to be a paraphilia/disorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

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[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Jfc what's with these pedo apologists. If someone were a cannibal, would it be totally fine to just give them human flesh removed from surgeries or dead people? Maybe let him pay people to eat them and drink their blood? AI images are trained on actual CP and CP anyway should not be normalized. If someone has ideation of violence then the last thing you do is feed those ideations. Would you think a suicidal person should watch simulated suicide? Why would watching simulated acts of depraved violence because you enjoy them somehow prevent you from committing that act yourself? If you enjoy something that much then you are thinking about doing it yourself.

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