A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography.

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.

  • Farid
    10•2 months ago

    Cutting off their testicles and straight up executing them would also reduce the offending rates. Even more effectively than chemical castration, I’m sure. But we wouldn’t be calling that helping the offender, would we? And the comment above was specifically talking about helping them.
    What we have now is more of a best middle ground between the amount of damage caused to the patient and safety guarantees for the society. We obviously prioritize safety for the society, but we should be striving for less damage to the patient, too.

    • @[email protected]
      -1•2 months ago

      …we should be striving for less damage to the patient, too.

      Can you make someone just not sexually interested in something they find arousing? As far as I know, conversion therapy for non-heterosexual people doesn’t have good success rates. Also, those therapies also tended to involve some form of harm, from what I’ve heard.

      • Farid
        4•2 months ago

        Can you make someone just not sexually interested in something they find arousing?

        No, I can’t. Doesn’t mean that we (as a society) shouldn’t be working on finding ways to do it or finding alternative solutions. And it’s necessary to acknowledge that what we have now is not good enough.

        those therapies also tended to involve some form of harm

        They probably did. But nobody here is claiming those were good or helping the patients either.

      • redfellow
        4•2 months ago

        It’s not about making someone want something, less, but helping them to never act on those needs.

        Computer generated imagery could in theory be helpful, so the itch gets scratched without creating victims and criminals.

        I’d call that a win-win in terms of societal well being, as also less funds are wasted on police work, jailing a perpetrator, and therapy for victim.

        • @[email protected]
          -3•2 months ago

          Computer generated imagery could in theory be helpful, so the itch gets scratched

          The Freudian concept of catharsis has been debunked many, many times. Does rape go down when freely available internet porn go up? That’s a rhetorical question, goodbye.

          • redfellow
            3•2 months ago

            It hasn’t been debunked? I’ve read that raping did go down when porn became readily available. If that’s not the case, then it’s a whole another story.