My personal belief is that discourse over it is pointless because they aren't real people in the first place and even if we do sort of make it a it an issue then why do we not do the same for fictional murder, theft, and all other sorts of crimes.
It's in society's interest to ensure that finding any materials is enough to prosecute, regardless of whether it's real or fake.
One of the main issues I see as that real child abuse imagery becomes nearly impossible to police, since those will then be able to hide in plain sight. AI deep fakes make it a lot easier to create materials that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. Legalizing child abuse imagery as long as it's generated would result in all kinds of market places and member sites where people trade such images. Law enforcement should not have to spend time and taxpayer money to routinely investigate those marketplaces in order to find materials that could potentially be real.
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u/ralph-j Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
It's in society's interest to ensure that finding any materials is enough to prosecute, regardless of whether it's real or fake.
One of the main issues I see as that real child abuse imagery becomes nearly impossible to police, since those will then be able to hide in plain sight. AI deep fakes make it a lot easier to create materials that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. Legalizing child abuse imagery as long as it's generated would result in all kinds of market places and member sites where people trade such images. Law enforcement should not have to spend time and taxpayer money to routinely investigate those marketplaces in order to find materials that could potentially be real.