A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual content.
I’m not an expert on the psychology of pedophilia, but I don’t think it has anything to do with addiction. It seems to be a paraphilia/disorder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia
I don’t claim to be an expert either, but it’s kind of a no-brainer to see what addiction is and what it does to people. Really simple stuff.