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.

  • @aesthelete
    -7•2 months ago

    I don’t know how well-rendered CSAM has to be in order to be considered legal or illegal, and I frankly don’t give a shit.

      • @aesthelete
        -7•2 months ago

        You seem to give a shit. I’m completely fine with the current legal constraints.

        EDIT: I have a downvote button too! Look at us!

        • @[email protected]
          8•2 months ago

          I’m just hesitant to make open ended laws about things that aren’t actually real. What’s next? Images mocking Jesus are illegal?

          • @aesthelete
            -4•2 months ago

            Is every surface a non-stop slip and slide to you?

            These are bad arguments. Spare me the “this will encroach on the first amendment” for a case of something where the laws that someone was arrested under encroach on the first amendment in a way you disagree with.

            Maybe that is this case, maybe you already think it’s “a step too far” for people to be arrested for AI CSAM…but then argue that instead of trying to pretend that it’s a step along a path to a violation of some great philosophical principle you hold.

            • @[email protected]
              8•2 months ago

              I’m just interested where your morals stop. An AI image of murdering a child is perfectly fine with you—in a legal sense—as long as they have pants on. Strange.

              • @aesthelete
                -4•2 months ago

                Morality and legality are two completely different things.

                Morally, I think all of it sucks ass including what you’re describing…but that only has a tenuous relationship with what is or ought to be illegal.

                • @[email protected]
                  9•2 months ago

                  Well, we will have to agree to disagree on some things.

                  Btw, I enjoyed that slip and slide comment. Very clever.