How does AI fit into criminal behavior?

Not sure where to put this so it’s in chit chat.

I came across this story and it go me pondering.
A man made sexually explicit images using AI and then shared them with a minor. Of course it’s a crime to do that so he was arrested. But that leads to the big question. What happens when someone uses this method to make child porn images and distributes them to adults? Is that a crime?
I’m not sure it is even though it’s disgusting and feels wrong.

I can see how it might break laws if you made illicit images of a real person but a fictional creation… I just don’t know


“ MAY 21--A Wisconsin software engineer used an artificial intelligence program to create thousands of “hyper-realistic” images of prepubescent children engaged in sexual activity, according to investigators who allege that the accused man shared some of the photos with a 15-year-old boy.”

www.thesmokinggun.com...

Thoughts?

a reply to: Bluntone22

images of prepubescent children engaged in sexual activity

Wrong on every level due to that statement alone.

originally posted by: KKLOCO
a reply to: Bluntone22

images of prepubescent children engaged in sexual activity

Wrong on every level due to that statement alone.

I certainly don’t disagree but that still doesn’t answer the big question.
Is it illegal to make and distribute illicit images of minors?

a reply to: Bluntone22

I would think that entirely fictional pedophilic pornography, even comics, and obvious artistic depictions, are still prosecutable as they show motivation towards criminal acts.

Legal status of fictional pornography depicting minors

Although in the US, it appears that podophiles can object that any attempt to censure their pornography violates 'free speech'.

I also know that AI is being used by several anti-malware/computer security companies and law enforcement, who use it to identify potential wrongdoers from vast amounts of data.

Police Using AI To Catch Criminals Is Quick, Convenient And Scarily Imprecise

There are also some criminals who are no-doubt trying to find ways to exploit the technologies to commit crimes.

The Dark Side of AI in Cybersecurity — AI-Generated Malware

a reply to: chr0naut

I can see how you could prosecute someone attempting to obtain illegal pictures much like a
Someone can be arrested for trying to use a prostitute.
But are these pictures actually illegal?

And yeah, I’m sure criminals are looking for ways to use AI to commit crimes just like hackers have for decades..
water is wet.

Laws for sure will need to adapt

I guess I don’t think like a criminal so this crap has never crossed my mind.

originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: chr0naut

I can see how you could prosecute someone attempting to obtain illegal pictures much like a
Someone can be arrested for trying to use a prostitute.
But are these pictures actually illegal?

And yeah, I’m sure criminals are looking for ways to use AI to commit crimes just like hackers have for decades..
water is wet.

Laws for sure will need to adapt

It is surprising that in the USA, so many 'conservatives' end up proposing legislation which paradoxically supports the very things that they denigrate.

And I wonder if all of their nonsense about 'liberty', in an already free country, isn't in fact to the disadvantage of anyone who is not a criminal?

It's like 'liberty' is some sort of jingoistic chant that is ultimately fairly meaningless, except for propaganda purposes.

Definitely the QTards waving guns around in family pizza restaurants, looking for all them paedophiles, are a direct embarrassment to 'Conservatism'.

a reply to: Bluntone22

Unless for historical or medical purposes, nude depiction of underage people is very much against the law.



Kinda like how our baby pics of us in the bathtub all birthday suit like is not against the law. Historical value even if it being just one family.

a reply to: budzprime69
But that's the whole point in your post there. What any family man/woman can take completely innocent picture of their children could be construed as titillating to a paedophile. Now who is the guilty one there? It all comes down to public consensus/government legislation and that means the country you are living in, because in certain countries it is perfectly legal for adult males to marry/have sex with underage girls

In my opinion paedophiles are immature/wrong in the head/evil etc. and should not be tolerated in a civil society.

We're talking about AI here and initially it's like a computer, you get out what you put in and just like every other technology criminals WILL use it for their own advantage and no one in the world will ever stop them. But when AI gets sentient that's another kettle of fish. Will it "learn" right from wrong, will it revert back to it's original inputter who might be a paedophile???? Only time will tell.