On one hand I don’t think this kind of thing can be consequence free (from a practical standpoint). On the other hand… how old were the subjects? You can’t look at a person to determine their age and someone that looks like a child but is actually adult wouldn’t be charged as a child pornographer. The whole reason age limits are set is to give reasonable assurance the subject is not being exploited or otherwise harmed by the act.
This is a massive grey area and I just hope sentences are proportional to the crime. I could live with this kind of thing being classified as a misdemeanor provided the creator didn’t use underage subjects to train or influence the output.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I get how fucking creepy and downright sickening this all feels, but I’m genuinely surprised that it’s illegal or criminal if there’s no actual children involved.
It mentions sexual extortion and that’s definitely something that should be illegal, same for spreading AI generated explicit stuff about real people without their concent, involving children or adults, but idk about the case mentioned here.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s certainly creepy and disgusting
It also seems like we’re half a step away from thought police regulating any thought or expression a person has that those in power do not like
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Exactly. If there’s no victim, there’s no crime.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
It would depend on the country. In the UK even drawn depictions are illegal.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It sounds like a very iffy thing to police. Since drawn stuff doesn’t have actual age, how do you determine it? Looks? Wouldn’t be great.