363

Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI(futurism.com)

posted 4 months ago

by

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

in

news@lemmy.world

315 commentshide report

A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography, highlighting the danger and ubiquity of generative AI being used for nefarious reasons.

Phillip Michael McCorkle was arrested last week while he was working at a movie theater in Vero Beach, Florida, according to TV station CBS 12 News. A crew from the TV station captured the arrest, which made for dramatic video footage due to law enforcement leading away the uniform-wearing McCorkle from the theater in handcuffs.

Sort:

Hot Top Controversial New Old

You are viewing a single thread.

View all comments View context

[ - ]

ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee

3 points

4 months ago

Punishing people for intending to do something is punishing them for thought crimes. That is not the world I want to live in.

report

reply

[ - ]

Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone

-1 points

4 months ago

This guy did do something - he either created or accessed AI generated CSAM.

report

reply

[ - ]

ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee

3 points

4 months ago

I’m not talking about “this guy”. I’m talking about what you just said.

report

reply

[ - ]

Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone

-1 points

4 months ago

Intent is defined as intention or purpose. So I’ll rephrase for you: the purpose of playing a FPS is to play a game. The purpose of playing GTA is to play a game.

The purpose of AI generated CSAM is to watch children being abused.

report

reply

[ - ]

ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee

3 points

4 months ago

I don’t think that’s fair. It could just as well be said that the purpose of violent games is to simulate real life violence.

Even if I grant you that the purpose of viewing CSAM is to see child abuse, it’s still less bad than actually abusing them just like playing violent games is less bad than participating in real violence. Also, despite the massive increase in violent games and movies, the actual number of violence is going down so implying that viewing such content would increase the cases of child abuse is an assumption I’m not willing to make either.

report

reply

[ - ]

Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone

-1 points

4 months ago

The purpose of a game is to play a game through a series of objectives and challenges.

Even if I grant you that the purpose of viewing CSAM is to see child abuse

Very curious to hear what else you think the purpose of watching CSAM might be.

it’s still less bad than actually abusing them

“less bad” is relative. A bad thing is still bad. If we go by length of sentencing then rape is ‘less bad’ than murder. that doesn’t make it ‘not bad’.

so implying that viewing such content would increase the cases of child abuse is an assumption I’m not willing to make either.

OK?

I didn’t claim that AI CSAM increased anything at all. Literally all I’ve said is that the purpose of AI generated CSAM is to watch kids being abused.

Neither did I claim that violent games lead to violence. You invented that strawman all by yourself.

report

reply

[ - ]

ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee

3 points

4 months ago

*

A person said that there is no victim in creating simulated CSAM with AI just like there isn’t one in video games, to which you replied that the difference there is intention. The intention to play violent games is to play games when as with viewing CSAM it’s that your intention is to view abuse material.

Correct so far?

Ofcourse the intent is that. For what other reason would anyone want to see CSAM for, than to see CSAM? What kind of argument / conclusion is this supposed to be? How else am I supposed to interpret this than as you advocating for the crimimalization of creating such content despite the fact that no one is being harmed? How is that not pre-emptively punishing people for crimes they’ve yet to even commit? Nobody chooses to be born with such thoughts or desires, so I don’t see the point of punishing anyone for that alone.

report

reply

Show more comments

Show more comments

Show more comments

Show more comments

Show more comments

News

!news@lemmy.world

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

Community stats

14K
Monthly active users
10K
Posts
198K
Comments

Community moderators