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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2086 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025

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I know the general tendency but haven't seen specific examples (about specifically AI CSAM, at least).

@SteveAgain is likely referring to legal changes like this, which seem to be based on sentiments like these.

...Yeah, that's about what I expected, thanks.

The IT worker, who used AI software to make his own indecent images of children using text prompts, said he would never view such images of real children because he is not attracted to them. He claimed simply to be fascinated by the technology.

Let him who uses a lora and never once throws in [nsfw, naked] for the fuck of it cast the first stone. I'm not big on SD but even I did this, if only to kek at the result and move on.

I will begrudgingly note however that they do have a point here - can't speak for imagegen, but chatbots (if my impression from threads is anything to go by) absolutely do have a real propensity for awakening fetishes people never knew they had.

Yeah. The other day they jailed a guy for 18+ years for making lora character models for people's OCs. Literally harsher punishments for drawings than actual rape.

Gotta keep up the "umm actually white men are the majority of sex offenders" narrative somehow I guess, even if it takes making up imaginary crimes as well as ignoring real ones.

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