This is an issue that I suspect gets confusing for many people. Creating deepfake abuse imagery has become relatively easy to do, but in many places, it is illegal. The harm, though, is indirect. A child wasn’t being abused to create the images, but once they are in public, the child who is being portrayed in the picture is being harmed in other ways.
It’s important to understand because it’s too easy to think of fake images as just fakes where no one was harmed. This article looks at the current state of technology and legal issues. I would love for someone to do a deep dive into the real harm caused by fake images.
Because if you ask any child or woman who has had faked images of themselves shared publicly, they can tell you about the harm.
Explore how advancements in artificial intelligence are enabling the creation of child sexual abuse imagery and the urgent legal and technological measures being taken in the U.S. and globally to address this issue.
https://complexdiscovery.com/ai-powered-abuse-the-growing-concern-of-child-exploitation-imagery/