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.

  • Todd Bonzalez
    2•2 months ago

    Think of it this way - what if the government said one day: “All child porn made in the before this date is legal, all child porn made after this date is illegal”.

    You would end up with a huge corpus of “legal” child porn that pedophiles could use as a release, but you could become draconian about the manufacture of new child porn. This would, theoretically, discourage new child porn from being created, because the risk is too high compared to the legal stuff.

    Can you see the problem? That’s right, in this scenario, child porn is legal. That’s fucked up, and we shouldn’t do that, even if it is “simulated”, because fuck that.

    • @BonesOfTheMoon
      1•2 months ago

      You definitely have a good point. I was just thinking hopefully to reduce harm but obviously I don’t want it to be legal.

    • @Cryophilia
      0•2 months ago

      “Because fuck that” is not a great argument.