EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes

Although I think this is fraught and probably will create an entire industry of suit and countersuit I am unsure any jurisdiction has much choice here.<p>I&#x27;m really uncomfortable with both thought crime and implied free speech issues in this and the mechanistic aspects of how an llm and gpt system works makes me wonder who else but the hosting company can be legally at risk here.<p>I think it would be a mistake to say this is victimless crime, even if I can&#x27;t point to a victim.<p>The hentai&#x2F;domai and related cartoon industry probably has a higher legal risk if this gets up.

It&#x27;s hard enough stopping child pornography when there are real children used to make it...<p>But when the difference between the difference between the digital representation of a child and that of an adult just becomes a variable in a parameter space?<p>It&#x27;ll be impossible to stop.<p>Child pornography is a byproduct of human trafficking, and that&#x27;s where the focus needs to be.

I think the title is misleading clickbait, since it suggests the EU is proposing something similar to the recent UK law, or laws in other jurisdictions regulating AI deepfakes in general; whereas this is entirely about the depiction of CSAM using AI (confusing in itself, since I&#x27;m fairly sure that EU regulations already prohibit the non-photographic, i.e., artistic depiction of such content).<p>A more accurate and less click-baity title might be &#x27;EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated and deepfaked child sexual abuse content&#x27;

Is it even possible to distinguish between such deepfakes and real footage at this point? Maybe they do that also so that there is no defensive line over claiming CSAM videos found are deepfakes and thus not a crime?<p>Moreover even AI generated CSAM has to trained somewhere. It is not certain at all that an increase in AI generated CSAM market would necessarily mean less child abuse.