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How do these AI models generate nude imagery of children without having been trained with data containing illegal images of nude children?
Tbf it's not needed. If it can draw children and it can draw nude adults, it can draw nude children.
Just like it doesn't need to have trained on purple geese to draw one. It just needs to know how to draw purple things and how to draw geese.
that’s not true, a child and an adult are not the same. and ai can not do such things without the training data. it’s the full wine glass problem. and the only reason THAT example was fixed after it was used to show the methodology problem with AI, is because they literally trained it for that specific thing to cover it up.
I'm not saying it wasnt trained on csam or defending any AI.
But your point isn't correct
What prompts you use and how you request changes can get same results. Clever prompts already circumvent many hard wired protections. It's a game of whackamole and every new iteration of an AI will require different methods needed bypass those protections.
If you can ask it the right ways it will do whatever a prompt tells it to do
It doesn't take actual images/data trained if you can just tell it how to get the results you want it to by using different language that it hasn't been told not to accept.
The AI doesn't know what it is doing, it's simply running points through its system and outputting the results.
It still seems pretty random. So they'll say they fixed it so it won't do something, all they likely did was reduce probability, so we still get screenshots showing what it sometimes lets through.