Did paedophiles think AI-created child abuse images were acceptable? Honestly?
They are not. They will still encourage people who have such leanings to abuse real children, and that is a criminal offence.
So This Writer welcomes the announcement of new legislation banning the creation of child abuse images using artificial intelligence.
Possession of AI paedophile manuals – which teach people how to use AI for sexual abuse – will also be made illegal, and offenders will get up to three years in prison.
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Did anyone – who doesn’t live in the murky world of paedophile rings – even consider the possibility that such manuals might exist, or that anybody would want to produce them? It’s revelations like this that make a jaded old journo like This Writer feel very innocent indeed.
The UK will also become the first country in the world to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with a punishment of up to five years in prison.
“Designed” to produce such material? Couldn’t it be said that any AI that can be used to make images of any kind may be “designed” to do that? It would be a step backwards if a useful tool for visualisation of legal things was banned because of a perverted sub-section of society.
Perhaps – and I know this is counter-arguing what I state above about not have considered the possibility – people in law enforcement should have been ahead of this game, and should have demanded that AI developers ensure that their software does not permit the creation of such materials.
Deepseek, the new Chinese AI that has taken the world by storm, doesn’t have image creation capabilities, so it is safe. ChatGPT, the leading American brand, does – but is it programmed to stop paedophiles from creating CSAM with it?
I don’t know.
Going beyond the creation of this… material… it seems other laws will make it an offence punishable with up to 10 years’ imprisonment to run websites where paedophiles can share child sexual abuse content or provide advice on how to groom children.
Shouldn’t that have happened a long time ago?
And the Border Force will be able to make individuals they suspect are a sexual risk to children unlock their digital devices for inspection when they attempt to enter the UK, as CSAM is often filmed abroad. Depending on the severity of the images, this will be punishable by up to three years in prison.
I wonder if they will be using that power on prominent or famous people? Would they have used it on Jeffrey Epstein if the opportunity had arisen? I have a doubt about that.
More concerning even than all of the above is the scale of the threat to children and young people.
The BBC tells us that, according to the National Crime Agency,
there are 800 arrests each month relating to threats posed to children online. It said 840,000 adults are a threat to children nationwide – both online and offline – which makes up 1.6% of the adult population.
How has this been allowed to happen? (And This Site will not be entertaining comments that all the abusers are foreigners, thank you very much. More than 80 per cent of those convicted of child sex offences are white British people.)
It seems there is a serious problem related to education in the UK. People are not learning that it is wrong to interfere sexually with people younger than the age of consent. Why not?
Prevention is better than punishment – and the best way to prevent this kind of abuse is to make sure that everyone is brought up to find it as abhorrent as it undoubtedly is.
It might take a bit of doing. Paedophiles seem to like worming their way into positions of responsibility over youngsters, and law enforcers may need to spend time exposing their activities.
I wonder what Yvette Cooper [pictured] has to say about that. Anything? Or is it too much like hard work?
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Did paedophiles think AI-created child abuse images were acceptable?
Did paedophiles think AI-created child abuse images were acceptable? Honestly?
They are not. They will still encourage people who have such leanings to abuse real children, and that is a criminal offence.
So This Writer welcomes the announcement of new legislation banning the creation of child abuse images using artificial intelligence.
Possession of AI paedophile manuals – which teach people how to use AI for sexual abuse – will also be made illegal, and offenders will get up to three years in prison.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Did anyone – who doesn’t live in the murky world of paedophile rings – even consider the possibility that such manuals might exist, or that anybody would want to produce them? It’s revelations like this that make a jaded old journo like This Writer feel very innocent indeed.
The UK will also become the first country in the world to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with a punishment of up to five years in prison.
“Designed” to produce such material? Couldn’t it be said that any AI that can be used to make images of any kind may be “designed” to do that? It would be a step backwards if a useful tool for visualisation of legal things was banned because of a perverted sub-section of society.
Perhaps – and I know this is counter-arguing what I state above about not have considered the possibility – people in law enforcement should have been ahead of this game, and should have demanded that AI developers ensure that their software does not permit the creation of such materials.
Deepseek, the new Chinese AI that has taken the world by storm, doesn’t have image creation capabilities, so it is safe. ChatGPT, the leading American brand, does – but is it programmed to stop paedophiles from creating CSAM with it?
I don’t know.
Going beyond the creation of this… material… it seems other laws will make it an offence punishable with up to 10 years’ imprisonment to run websites where paedophiles can share child sexual abuse content or provide advice on how to groom children.
Shouldn’t that have happened a long time ago?
And the Border Force will be able to make individuals they suspect are a sexual risk to children unlock their digital devices for inspection when they attempt to enter the UK, as CSAM is often filmed abroad. Depending on the severity of the images, this will be punishable by up to three years in prison.
I wonder if they will be using that power on prominent or famous people? Would they have used it on Jeffrey Epstein if the opportunity had arisen? I have a doubt about that.
More concerning even than all of the above is the scale of the threat to children and young people.
The BBC tells us that, according to the National Crime Agency,
How has this been allowed to happen? (And This Site will not be entertaining comments that all the abusers are foreigners, thank you very much. More than 80 per cent of those convicted of child sex offences are white British people.)
It seems there is a serious problem related to education in the UK. People are not learning that it is wrong to interfere sexually with people younger than the age of consent. Why not?
Prevention is better than punishment – and the best way to prevent this kind of abuse is to make sure that everyone is brought up to find it as abhorrent as it undoubtedly is.
It might take a bit of doing. Paedophiles seem to like worming their way into positions of responsibility over youngsters, and law enforcers may need to spend time exposing their activities.
I wonder what Yvette Cooper [pictured] has to say about that. Anything? Or is it too much like hard work?
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