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>>miohta+(OP)
Who is the victim of this “crime” here?

>>iammjm+x3
This is probably controversial, but if we assume that pedos will (unfortunately) exist and will generate demand for this kind of material, isn't it better if it comes from an AI instead of real children?

>>Ahoy87+p5
This is an old discussion about "pretend paedophilia" using either art or (adult) actors, and AI essentially changed very little about it. The two views, very briefly, are:

- "It's a safer outlet and prevents actual child abuse, so it's a good thing."

- "It will encourage and enforce paedophilic tendencies and (indirectly) encourages actual child abuse, so it's a bad thing."

The last time I looked, the evidence is inconclusive. It's a difficult topic to research well, so I'm not expecting anything conclusive on this any time soon.

My own view is that most likely, there are different kind of paedophiles and that different things will be true for different groups because these types of things aren't that simple. This kind of nuance is even harder to research, especially on such a controversial topic fraught with ethics issues.

There's also the issue of training material, which is unique to AI. Is it possible to have AI generated child abuse material without training material of that kind of thing? I don't know enough about AI to comment on that.