In the near future, AI will be able to generate large amounts of child abuse footage. It can either be about films of fictitious children or the perpetrators can use still images of real children to generate film of. Although this means no children will be harmed, scientists warn of the consequences. You can already ask an AI to make a pornographic image. In the near future, AI will also be able to generate movies. – I think we are at a turning point now when those who are doing this will start using AI, this modern generative AI technology, to generate child abuse material, says Stefan Axelsson who is a professor of digital forensics at Stockholm University. – Then you can very easily generate formal torrents of this type of material which of course we won’t have time to classify and so on, he continues. “Triggered to abuse” After all, the material is AI-generated and that means that no real children will be physically harmed. But that doesn’t mean it’s problem-free, say researchers who treat offenders. – The research shows that people who watch child abuse material can be triggered to commit child abuse in real life. At least, a majority say so in a survey on the darknet of people who regularly use child abuse material. It seems more like a trigger than something that satisfies or satiates the need, says Christoffer Rahm, psychiatrist and researcher at the Karolinska Institutet. Deep fake with real children’s faces When generating pornographic material, you can also use images of real children. Some famous child that you find in the media or the neighbor’s child that is on Facebook. For children who have been subjected to real abuse, this can be just as traumatic. – A child who knows that there are pictures of himself – naked or in various sexual situations, spread in thousands of copies on the Internet, which are used worldwide for sexual purposes – it is often at least as much suffering for the child as the abuse itself was as the pictures show, says Christoffer Rahm. Legislation not adapted for AI As the legislation stands today, AI-generated child pornography is prohibited. But the laws are not at all adapted to handle all the possibilities that are now opening up. – I find it problematic in several ways. Partly because it involves a violation of children in general, when you exploit and sexualize their bodies in this way. The children cannot stand this by themselves. We adults must take responsibility for stopping that development. says Christopher Rahm. – AI certainly has many good uses and is a good technology in many ways. But in this particular field, I would like us to put P.
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