A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.

  • guyrocket
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    910 months ago

    I am a little surprised that no one had created a site like this for child pornography.

    I am not a legal expert, but my layman’s understanding of Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition is that as long as there is no person being harmed by it CSAM is legal.

    Maybe later rulings have changed this. One can hope.

    • @Knusper@feddit.de
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      1110 months ago

      Well, to develop such a service, you need training data, i.e. lots of real child pornography in your possession.

      Legality for your viewers will also differ massively around the world, so your target audience may not be very big.

      And you probably need investors, which likely have less risky projects to invest into.

      Well, and then there’s also the factor of some humans just not wanting to work on disgusting, legal grey area stuff.

      • @Womble@lemmy.world
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        1210 months ago

        yup, just like the ai needed lots of pictures of astronaughts on horses to make pictures of those…

        • @JonEFive@midwest.social
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          310 months ago

          Exactly. Some of these engines are perfectly capable of combining differing concepts. In your example, it knows basically what a horse looks like, and what a human riding on horseback looks like. It also knows that an astronaut looks very much like a human without a space suit and can put the two together.

          Saying nothing of the morality, In this case, I suspect that an AI could be trained using pictures of clothed children perhaps combined with nude images of people who are of age and just are very slim or otherwise have a youthful appearance.

          While I think it’s repugnent in concept, I also think that for those seeking this material, I’d much rather it be AI generated than an actual exploited child. Realistically though, I doubt that this would actually have any notable impact to the prevalence of CSAM, and might even make it more accessible.

          Furthermore, if the generative AI gets good enough, it could make it difficult to determine whether an image is real or AI generated. That would make it more difficult for police to find the child and offender to try to remove them from that situation. So now we need an AI to help analyze and separate the two.

          Yeah… I don’t like living in 2023 and things are only getting worse. I’ve put way more thought into this than I ever wanted to.

          • @Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world
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            110 months ago

            Aren’t AI generated images pretty obvious to detect from noise analysis? I know there’s no effective detection for AI generated text, and not that there won’t be projects to train AI to generate perfectly realistic images, but it’ll be a while before it does fingers right, let alone invisible pixel artifacts.

            As a counterpoint, won’t the prevalence of AI generated CSAM collapse the organized abuse groups, since they rely on the funding from pedos? If genuine abuse material is swamped out by AI generated imagery, that would effectively collapse an entire dark web market. Not that it would end abuse, but it would at least undercut the financial motive, which is progress.

            That’s pretty good for 2023.

      • @d13@programming.dev
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        410 months ago

        Unfortunately, no, you just need training data on children in general and training data with legal porn, and these tools can combine it.

        It’s already being done, which is disgusting but not surprising.

        People have worried about this for a long time. I remember a subplot of a sci-fi series that got into this. (I think it was The Lost Fleet, 15 years ago).

    • @drekly@lemmy.world
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      910 months ago

      CivitAI is a pretty perverted site at the best of times. But there’s a disturbing amount of age adjustment plugins to make images of children on the same site they have plugins to make sex acts. It’s clear some people definitely are.

      • oats
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        410 months ago

        Some models also prefer children for some reason and then you have to put mature/adult in positive prompt and child in negative

        • @lloram239@feddit.de
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          10 months ago

          I think part of the problem is that there is a lot of anime in the models and when you don’t filter that out with negative prompts it can distort the proportions of realistic images (e.g. everybody gets huge breasts unless you negative prompt it away). In general models are always heavily biased towards what they were trained on, and when you use a prompt or LORA that worked well on one model on another, you can get weird results. There is always a lot of nudging involved with keywords and weights to get the images to were you want it.

    • @inspxtr@lemmy.world
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      810 months ago

      I remember reading that this may be already happening to some extent, eg people sharing tips on creating it on the deep web, maybe through prompt engineer, fine tuning or pretraining.

      I don’t know how those models are made, but I do wonder the ones that need retraining/finetuning by using real csam can be classified as breaking the law.

    • mrnotoriousman
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      310 months ago

      There was an article the other day about underage girls in France having AI nudes spread around based on photos as young as 12. Definitely harm there.

      • @Jesus_666@feddit.de
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        310 months ago

        Typically, the laws get amended so that anything that looks like CSAM is now CSAM. Expect porn generators tuned for minor characters to get outlawed very quickly.

    • Rustmilian
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      10 months ago

      Hentai maybe. But realistic shit is 100% illegal, even just making such an AI would require breaking the law as you’d have to use real CSAM to train it.

    • 👁️👄👁️
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      110 months ago

      You’d also have to convince them that it’s not real. It’ll probably end up creating laws tbh. Then there are weird things like Japan where lolis are legal, but uncensored genitals aren’t, even drawn.