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Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2025
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I thought we all already knew this and were under the mindset of "lesser evil" if it curbs tendencies to actually go out and do the real thing in public. It also makes me think of how violent video game-playing has no correlation to violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_video_games
Besides, it's not like we can stop it anyway, given free and open-source AI models out there... Pandora's box has long been opened.
As long as there are open-weight models, people will be able to train out any safeguards.
The UK government loves demanding things that are technically impossible