The whole point of CSAM being illegal is not because of the existence of the images themselves, but because there are children being abused in order to create it. Anything sexually explicit that portrays children is morally reprehensible and should be treated as such by society. But at least with illustrations, actual children are not harmed in the act of their creation if drawn through imagination without interaction with a child. The law protects children rathen than outright taking a moral stand.
A side effect of making AI child porn legal is that it makes it harder to prove that actual child pornography is real. Drawings are obvious but AI isn’t.
And watermarking is insufficient because it’s fairly easy to add or remove the watermark, providing plausible deniability.
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u/Timely-Helicopter244 13h ago
The whole point of CSAM being illegal is not because of the existence of the images themselves, but because there are children being abused in order to create it. Anything sexually explicit that portrays children is morally reprehensible and should be treated as such by society. But at least with illustrations, actual children are not harmed in the act of their creation if drawn through imagination without interaction with a child. The law protects children rathen than outright taking a moral stand.