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.

  • @Cryophilia
    -1•22 days ago

    I’m at least all for a “fruit of the poisoned tree” theory - if AI model training data sets include actual CSAM then they can and should be made illegal.

    Now all AI is illegal. It’s trained via scraping the internet, which will include CP as well as every other image.

    • @tamal3
      1•21 days ago

      There’s “copywrite illegal,” and then there’s “cp illegal.” Those are two very different things.

      • @Cryophilia
        1•21 days ago

        I don’t understand the relevance of your statement.