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.

  • WormFood@lemmy.world
    913·
    2 months ago

    the number of people willing to bat for this on Lemmy is truly disturbing. what do they think these ai models are trained on?

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      121·
      2 months ago

      No necessarily is trained on CP, could be trained with images of children (already fuck up, who gave them that permission?) and pornography.

      • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        The article pointed out that stable diffusion was trained using a dataset containing CSAM