Have you seen some of the literal fake news that the Cato Institute pushed? The studies will say whatever the lawmakers (actually, whatever the lawmaker’s lobbyists) want them to say.
Of course the author argues that CP is immoral therefore we should stick to “virtual child pornography”. Though chances are that these lawmakers don’t care either way, and won’t listen to the evidence.
“Study the impact of AI on children.”
I will laugh myself breathless if they do and find out that AI generated fakes reduce the prevalence of the real thing.
Do you think they’ll even release the results if that happens, or just quietly stop talking about it?
Have you seen some of the literal fake news that the Cato Institute pushed? The studies will say whatever the lawmakers (actually, whatever the lawmaker’s lobbyists) want them to say.
Actually there is already some evidence that CP itself reduces child molestation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=8400329088513934403
Of course the author argues that CP is immoral therefore we should stick to “virtual child pornography”. Though chances are that these lawmakers don’t care either way, and won’t listen to the evidence.
They will P-hack the results like usual until a conclusion they favor is reached. See my other comment about why they are doing this to begin with.