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AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
To simplify:
If you want to generate an image of a Lion in a tuxedo it didn't necessary need to parse images of lions in a tuxedo.
You are talking about technicalities. For a model to be as good as possible you train on the most accurate data.
It is true that you can take SD, modify it to ignore moral values and then ask for CSAM but if you for example have a bunch of real CSAM and you train it on that data it would be much much better at generating believable CSAM. Which is what these criminals do...