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25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material

www.europol.europa.eu 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material | Europol

Europol has supported authorities from 19 countries in a large-scale hit against child sexual exploitation that has led to 25 arrests worldwide. The suspects were part of a criminal group whose members were engaged in the distribution of images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence (A...

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How can it be trained to produce something without human input.
It wasn’t trained to produce every specific image it produces. That would make it pointless. It “learns” concepts and then applies them.
No one trained AI on material of Donald Trump sucking on feet, but it can still generate it.
- It was able to produce that because enough images of both feet and Donald Trump exist.
  How would it know what young genitals look like?
  
  If you train a model on 1,000,000 images of dogs and 1,000,000 images of cats, your output isn't going to be a 50/50 split of purely dogs and purely cats, it's going to be (on average) somewhere between a cat and a dog. At no point did you have to feed in pictures of dog-cat hybrids to end up with that model.
  
  Yes but you start with the basics of a cat and a dog. So you start with adult genitals and.......
  
  Non-pornographic pictures of children and/or human-made pornographic drawings of children.
  
  Okay, and those drawings are my problem.
  https://www.icenews.is/2010/07/28/unsavoury-cartoon-ruling-sparks-debate-in-sweden/
  It's not clear cut that those are okay.
  
  "Okay" in what sense? If you mean morally, then I think that's pretty clear cut. If you mean legally, then that's just a technicality.
  
  totally ethical thousands of photos of drawings of children in sexual contexts
  Legality is just a technicality
  Okay there bud.
  
  Why would "thousands of photos of drawings of children in sexual contexts" be unethical?
  
  Because they're barely legal in certain places?
  
  Plenty of moral things are illegal or barely legal in certain places. For example, homosexual adults having consensual sex with each other in their own home. I assume you don't think that's unethical or immoral?
  
  You could probably make some semi-realistic drawings and feed those in, and then re-train the model with those same images over and over until the model is biased to use the child-like properties of the drawings but the realism of the adult pictures. You could also feed the most CP-looking images from a partially trained model as the training data of another model, which over time would make the outputs approach the desired result.
  
  But to know if it's accurate, someone has to view and compare....
  
  It doesn't matter if it's accurate or not as long as pedos can get off to it, so just keep going until they can. According to our definition of what a pedophile is, though, it would likely be accurate.
  
  But if it's not accurate, will pedos jerk off to it?
  
  Probably not, but that's irrelevant. The point is that no one needs to harm a child to find out if the output is sufficiently arousing.
  
  But how does it get more authentic without actual input if what's accurate.
  It's not enough to tell and AI that's somethings wrong. You have to also tell it what was right.
  
  It doesn't need to get more authentic, it just needs to get more arousing, and we have a perfectly ethical way to measure that. You tell the AI it was "right" if the pedos you show it to get aroused.

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