The generative artificial intelligences they are the inevitable future that awaits us, because they are convenient and fast, because they have multi-billion interests behind them and because they can inflate everyone’s ego. It is clear that many will use them for nefarious purposes, such as creating more realistic spam, creating fakes involving real people and create prohibited images, such as those of a child pornography nature.
As reported by Forbes, the social network Instagram in particular has been besieged by images of this kindpublished without any control by Meta, the company that manages it.
The report also goes into detail on the types of comments published by these people, who frequent Instagram and TikTok in particular, where it is often the minors themselves, or their parents, who unintentionally create the offer to hunt for likes.
Many agencies conducted fierce battles against online pedophiliabut with artificial intelligence the situation could definitely get out of hand, given the ease with which this content can be created.
Pedophiles and those who give them the tools
The worst part is that the trend arises from the greed of the very companies that manage the AI, because they voluntarily used CSAM material (Child Sexual Abuse Material) to train their models. For example a study dating back to December 2023 discovered the presence of this type of images in the datasets of Stable Diffusion, one of the most used image generative AIs. Google itself has admitted to using them for his AI.
In short, we cannot be surprised that pedophiles have found a way to exploit all this material themselves. To make the situation worse, there is also a big legal hole, because some of the materials discovered by Forbes are considered legal, given that the images are fake and the minors depicted are not completely naked.
I mean, they are anyway sexually suggestive imagesare probably based on real images, attract the attention and comments of pedophiles, but no one sets concrete limits. Meta and ByteDance have deleted the accounts reported by Forbes, which amounts to a bit of sweeping the dust under the carpet, considering that you can’t expect a journalistic report for every such account that appears online.
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